|
|
Guy (1993) came to supporting empirical conclusions in her examination of two decades of public service affirmative action. She found the number of women in decision-making positions to be disproportionately low compared to their percentage of the public work force.
Misztal draws on three theoretical veins: (1) Robert Putnam's development of the concept of social capital; (2) Richard Sennett's treatment of the shifting relationship between the public and the private; and (3) the work of Touraine, Urry, Bauman and Castells, who call for a new agenda for a ‘sociology beyond the social,’ emphasizing limitations of equating "the social" with "society."
Copyright 1998, 2006 by G. David Garson.