Question

In Mary Pardo’s “Grassroots Activism: Mothers of East Los Angeles” the author links the social networks of women and their _______-based responsibilities to political resources.

		Gender
		ethnic
		age
		education You are reading the alumni newsletter from Elite University (a very prestigious institution). In the newsletter it is mentioned that children of “generous” alumni (i.e., those who contribute large amounts of money) are guaranteed admission to the institution, regardless of their grades. Interestingly, you note from the pictures of generous alums that they are all white. You conclude that this suggests a case of stereotyping prejudicial treatment individual discrimination institutional discrimination good financial management Taylorization, which McDonald’s is based upon, is solely for the purpose of efficiency. It has nothing to do with management exercising control over workers. True False In Thompson’s “Hanging Tongues: A Sociological Encounter with the Assembly Line,” the author spent time working on the kill floor and discovered all but what? that working faster than the line speed allowed the workers a form of symbolic control working conditions were humane for the workers the better pay compared to other options tended to become a financial trap for those who had originally intended to move on that buying various gadgets/toys gave workers some compensation for the bad working conditions getting sick and/or injured was very common but workers tended to cope by concluding that someone who got seriously hurt or killed must have been sloppy

Answer 1

1. Ethnic based

Mary Pardo’s work shows how women from Latino families hsve been seeking a unification of their familial and community duties in order to expand the base for environmental justice.

2. Institutional discrimination

The institution shows a discrimination between ‘generous’ ( White families) and non-generous( or non-White racial groups) by reserving the seats for children from the affluent families irrespective of merit.

3. False

According to a Marxist analysis, Taylorism shows how an organisation which divides the work amongst employees into discreet skill specific tasks, is often anti-worker and management control-oriented. As this development transformed work organization by primarily driving it towards technology and efficiency considerations, it has led to greater alienation of the workers who have to engage in mundane tasks for a relatively longer period of time.

4. ‘Working conditions were humane for the workers’

Thomson’s Ethnography of the slaughterhouse workers presents how their engagement in a socially demeaned line of work along with the assembly line involved in production of beef contributed to their exploitation and alienation.