Author Description
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 Relationships: 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.
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
How do organizational structures and social relationships fundamentally generate and distribute inequality within modern society? Donald Tomaskovic-Devey and Dustin Avent-Holt, both established scholars in organizational sociology, present a comprehensive framework for understanding inequality as a product of relational processes. By synthesizing sociological theory with organizational analysis, they argue that inequality is not merely an individual outcome but a systemic result of categorization, resource pooling, and exploitation occurring within and between organizations.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- A relational framework for analyzing social and economic inequality.
- Analysis of five core processes: categorization, status hierarchies, resource pooling, exploitation, and social closure.
- Comparative case studies examining workplace dynamics and organizational behavior.
Scope Limits
- The text focuses primarily on organizational and workplace mechanisms rather than individual psychological factors.
- It does not provide a comprehensive history of global economic policy, focusing instead on the sociological mechanics of resource distribution.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Scholars in the field of organizational sociology recognize this work as a rigorous, systematic approach to understanding how institutions perpetuate social stratification. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, which makes it a standard reference for graduate-level research in sociology and labor economics.
Page Count:
272
Publication Date:
2018-01-01
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10:
0190624442
ISBN-13:
9780190624446
Economics
Labor Studies
Organizational Theory
Academic
Sociology