Study Circle Review Form for Sociology 101

STUDY CIRCLE REVIEW FORM
Sociology 101
Name: ___________________________ Week#_________ Assigned Readings: __________________________________________
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1. Briefly describe three main ideas the author wants you to know (“What is the author trying to convince me to believe?)
a. Ellen Rosen has several ideas which include; the aspect of sex discrimination in job areas. For instance, she wants the reader to know
this when she writes that ‘in Wal-Mart, a full 85% of the store managers are men, most often some in their early thirties’.
Additionally, ‘Wal-Mart promotes fewer women to top salaried positions’ which many consider as sexual discrimination.
b. Rosen also has the idea of ‘management by intimidation’ strategy as applied by employers like Wal-Mart. According to jimmy, a store
manager, ‘store managers are responsible for increasing sales in the company and if not they have their heads on the chopping block’.
They should work as a responsibility and not for incentives. This involves the aspect of mistreatment of workers.
c. The other idea is that companies make profits using unfair means which include, overworking employees, undercutting labor costs,
replacing old and highly paid workers for new less paid workers, unpaid overtimes and threatening them. For instance, according to
Carolyn Naster, ‘at Wal-Mart, everyone is held responsible for everything, as mangers make people responsible to do jobs they are not
trained for and which they were not hired to do’.
2. Write your reactions to 5 ideas that you think are significant from the reading (“What are my thoughts about the author’s ideas?”)
What I read (quote, pg.#,
paragraph)
My reaction to the passage is...
‘In Wal-Mart, a full 85%
of the store managers are
men, most often some in
their early thirties’. Pg.
220
Par, 7
I feel that, companies need to be sued for the practice of sexual any other form of discrimination.
‘At Wal-Mart, everyone is
held responsible for
everything, as mangers
All workers need to have their responsibilities made clear at the time of hiring to avoid being overworked later in their course of
employment