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Shopping as Symbolic Interaction: Race, Class, and Gender in the Toy Store
Author(s) -
Williams Christine L.
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2005.28.4.459
Subject(s) - symbolic interactionism , race (biology) , class (philosophy) , sociology , relevance (law) , the symbolic , inequality , gender studies , psychology , social psychology , computer science , social science , psychoanalysis , artificial intelligence , mathematics , political science , law , mathematical analysis
Presented as the Distinguished Lecture at the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction in San Francisco, California, on August 15, 2004, this article discusses the relevance of symbolic interactionism for understanding labor processes. Based upon the author's clerking experiences in two toy stores, she proposes that interactions between clerks and customers reproduce social inequalities based on race, gender, and class.