Suchergebnisse

Race discrimination in employment / with Lisette Garcia -- Race attitudes and the alternative realities of workers and bosses / with Ryan Light -- Sex discrimination in employment / with Donna Bobbitt-Zeher -- How sexual harassment happens / with Theresa Schmidt -- Discrimination in public and private economic sectors / with Reginald Byron -- Competitive threat and isolation at work / with Marguerite Hernandez -- The experiences of black and white and high- and low-status women / with Susan Ortiz -- Discrimination and African American men : a precarious historical legacy / with Sherry Mong -- Race and the process of housing discrimination / with Diana Karafin and Griff Tester -- The contexts of housing discrimination / with Diana Karafin and Griff Tester -- The contexts of housing discrimination / with Diana Karafin -- Housing and sex discrimination / with Griff Tester -- Conclusion

When I wrote an article on age discrimination last year, I couldn't believe the response: countless emails and at least five phone calls a week for several months. These communications weren't coming from researchers in the field but from workers across the country, male and female, semi-skilled, skilled, and professional. They shared stories of age discrimination that they, a spouse, or a parent had experienced or were currently living through, asked for information about their rights and what could be done, and thanked me for bringing light to an issue that "nobody talks about."

African American students continue to drop out of school at a level higher than that of their White counterparts and perform lower, on average, in math and reading achievement. Research has documented influences at the family and school levels, yet little work has dealt with both simultaneously. Equally important, few analyses acknowledge that family and school influences are themselves embedded in, and partially a function of, broader structures and spatial variations in class‐ and race‐based opportunity. I draw from the restricted‐use National Educational Longitudinal Survey and 1990 Census data in addressing these concerns. Findings suggest that disparities in family background and educational resources influence racial gaps in achievement, and sometimes in an interrelated manner. These more proximate influences on achievement are, for all students, influenced by spatial patterns of general, class‐based opportunity. Notably, Black disadvantage is exacerbated even further in areas of high racial inequality. Thus, broader structures of racial and class opportunity, rather than one or the other, are important determinants of educational stratification and achievement. Implications for future research are discussed.

Randy Hodson was one of contemporary sociology's central figures in the study of work, occupations, and inequality. This volume pays tribute to his important scholarly contributions. Chapters by other important scholars in these fields reflect and build on his research in work conditions, worker resistance, and social stratification

AbstractHas the adoption of "new governance" reforms over the last two decades eroded the public sector as a long-standing occupational niche for African Americans? Utilizing data from the General Social Survey, we address this issue in the context of earnings "returns" to three levels of job authority for African American men and women relative to their White counterparts. Findings, derived from analyses of three waves of the General Social Survey, indicate that the acceleration of this "business model" of work organization in the public sector has had relatively profound and negative consequences for African American income. Specifically, racial parity in earnings returns at all levels of authority in the "pre-reform" period (1992–1994) progressively eroded during "early reform" (2000–2002) and then even more so during the "late reform" (2010–2012) period. Much of this growing public sector disadvantage—a disadvantage that is approaching that seen in the private sector—is driven largely by income gaps between White and African American men, although a similar (though smaller) racial gap is witnessed among women. We conclude by discussing the occupational niche status of public sector work for African Americans, calling for further analyses of the growing inequality patterns identified in our analyses, and drawing attention to the implications for contemporary racial disadvantages.

AbstractIn this article, we offer an overview and critical assessment of recent changes wrought by "new governance" reforms within public sector work, highlighting the implications specifically for Black–White inequality, and denote where further sociological analyses are warranted. These foci are important given the widely accepted—though hardly comprehensively examined—assumption that public sector employment remains a favorable "economic niche" for African Americans. Recent sociological research, including our own, suggests that this is likely no longer the case. The very structure and functioning of public sector work have changed owing to neoliberal agendas and reforms toward privatization over the last two decades, becoming less bureaucratic and increasingly mirroring processes and inequalities more traditionally characteristic of the private sector. We emphasize the consequences particularly for African Americans and call for deeper sociological analyses of public sector racial inequalities, processes, and their consequences.

Sociologists Vincent J. Roscigno and George Wilson discuss workplace "reforms" that undermine public sector workers' rights.