Consumer Discrimination and Self-Employment

The Sociology of Discrimination: Racial Discrimination in Employment, Housing, Credit, and Consumer Markets.

Persistent racial inequality in employment, housing, and a wide range of other social domains has renewed interest in the possible role of discrimination. And yet, unlike in the pre-civil rights era, when racial prejudice and discrimination were overt and widespread, today discrimination is less readily identifiable, posing problems for social scientific conceptualization and measurement. This ...

Discrimination in Employment

Running Head: CONSUMER RACIAL DISCRIMINATION Consumer Racial Discrimination in Tipping: A Replication and Extension

This study examines the effects of server race, customer race and their interaction on restaurant tips while statistically controlling for the customers’ perceptions of service quality and other variables. The findings indicate that consumers of both races discriminate against black service providers by tipping them less than white service providers. Furthermore, this server race effect on tipp...

Sex Discrimination in Employment: Survey and Analysis

With its socio-economic development, the issue of China’s female discrimination in labor employment field is increasingly significant. This present paper identifies the status quo of females in employment, salary, career development, retirement age, and other respects and problems on the basis of a survey on Shandong women employment in a variety of enterprises. Then it continues an objective a...

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment

Other Forms of Employment: Temporary Employment Agencies and Self-Employment In most industrialized countries the majority of employed people are full-time employees with a non-temporary job and work at a workplace of the company in which they are employed. They are making careers at the employer they are employed by and most work-place changes are to other jobs of the same type. But it does no...