This study presents a critique of the social science literature that takes race- and/or sex-based "occupational segregation" as its object of analysis. First, by taking the segregation metaphor as problematic, this study moves beyond "occupational segregation" conceptually by reunifying the inalienable characteristics of race and sex, and by seeing the occupational outcomes of labor power allocation practices as distributional, not segregating. Second, through a sociological deconstruction of existing theories of race- and/or sex-based "occupational segregation," it moves beyond "occupation segregation" theoretically by displacing the conception of writings about "occupational segregation" as theories, to one of ideologies that advocate, legitimate, and authorize specific forms of labor power allocation practices. Finally, I empirically reconstruct labor power allocation practices that have existed and continue to exist in the post-War United States, and demonstrate that, depending where you look, all theories of "occupational segregation" find empirical support in terms of their expected distributional effects. This reconstruction moves beyond "occupational segregation" empirically by displacing the notion of theories of occupational segregation as competing general truth claims, to one that sees them as historically-specific ideological contenders that become actualized in practice through struggle in the political arena. / My work also contains a critique of the form of social practice known as "social science." The provisional alternative form of practice that I begin to work out in this study--in and through my critique and displacement of "occupational segregation"--attempts to avoid the empiricism, forms of reductionism, ahistoricism, passive atomistic view of human action, and view of the social as the aggregation of these atomistic individuals that together plague and fetter the practice known as "social science." / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 48-03, Section: A, page: 0715. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1987.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_76058 |
| Contributors | CARLSON, SUSAN M., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 393 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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