Relational Inequalities: An Organizational Approach

by Donald Tomaskovic-Devey, Dustin Avent-Holt

Organizations are the dominant social invention for generating resources and distributing them. Relational Inequalities develops a general sociological and organizational analysis of inequality, exploring the processes that generate inequalities in access to respect, resources, and rewards. Framing their analysis through a relational account of social and economic life, Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt explain how resources are generated and distributed both within and between organizations. They show that inequalities are produced through generic processes that occur in all social categorization and their resulting status hierarchies, organizational resource pooling, exploitation, social closure, and claims-making. Drawing on a wide range of case studies, Tomaskovic-Devey and Avent-Holt focus on the workplace as the primary organization for generating inequality and provide a series of global goals to advance both a comparative organizational research
model and to challenge troubling inequalities.

Genres: Sociology, Nonfiction, Labor

304 pages, Hardcover

Published January 11, 2019

Reviews

[Philip Cohen · Rating 5 out of 5]

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[Yisu Z. · Rating 4 out of 5]

中层理论之一。在本体论方面有点问题（组织是什么？组织变化的条件会影响这些机制吗？），不过论点还是有启发。3重机制都可以展开做经验研究。