emphasize the same criteria in selecting and advancing workers.-Orthodox labor market research assumes a simple ''wage competitive'' model, viewing workers as entrepreneurs who market themselves to the highest bidding employer.- ''Instead of people looking for jobs, there are jobs looking for ... 'suitable' people'' (Thurow 1972). Effects of Stratification on Organizations:-Theorists and researchers disagree about how hierarchy and inequality influence organizational effectiveness and individual well-being.-Weber and Durkheim - hierarchy is efficient and inevitable-Others associate hierarchy with alienation and pathological conformity.-Esp. Marxists regard workplace stratification as a means of controlling labor by reproducing class divisions within the firm.-Lack of sound empirical research-Effects relations among organizations, particularly personnel flows. PIERRE BOURDIEUDistinction --- ''The Sense of Distinction'' (chp 5) Bordieu begins this chapter with an overview of how he thinks society is stratified. The dominant class is ''an autonomous space whose structure is defined by the distribution of economic and cultural capital among its members.'' There are fractions within each class which correspond to different lifestyles through the habitus. The habitus is a system of choices that are influenced by inherited asset structures. Furthermore, different sets of preferences come from systems of dispositions and the social conditions of production which create relationships between them (the systems of dispositions). For a good part of the remainder of this chapter, Bordieu discusses taste, particularly why the predilection for cultural practices increases with a decrease in economic means. First , Bordieu establishes that the volume of capital (he doesn't specify which kind here) constitutes the principle division of practices and preferences. Bordieu explains that cultural practices ''increase'' when economic capital decreases becau...
