Exam 4: The Social Structure and Personality Perspective

Why did the White male managers in the company Kanter studied choose other White males for promotion" thereby excluding women and racial/ethnic minorities from upper-level managerial positions? Why is Kanter's book (Men and Women of the Corporation) classified as research in social structure and personality? What are the policy implications of Kanter's study?

The number one determinant of job satisfaction is salary.

How do reference groups affect people's self-evaluations? Use an example from your personal experience" or the experience of someone you know" to illustrate this process.

What is the second shift? In her study on the second shift" Hochschild found that married men with children who didn't work for pay did the least amount of housework? Why was this the case?

Social structure and personality is similar in focus to psychological social psychology in both its unit of analysis and dominant methodology.

The general social structure and personality model involves multiple levels of analysis-micro" meso" and macro. What does this mean? Define each level of analysis and describe the focus of research in social structure and personality.