Individual or Organizational Resources As Determinants of Success of Apprenticeship? The Need for Solving Organizational Problems As Motors behind Social InequalityIndividuelle oder organisationale Ressourcen als Determinanten des Bildungserfolgs? Organisatorischer Problemlosungsbedarf als Motor sozialer Ungleichheit

Imdorf, C. (2007) Individual or Organizational Resources As Determinants of Success of Apprenticeship? The Need for Solving Organizational Problems As Motors behind Social InequalityIndividuelle oder organisationale Ressourcen als Determinanten des Bildungserfolgs? Organisatorischer Problemlosungsbedarf als Motor sozialer Ungleichheit. Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie/Revue Su, 33(3), pp. 407-423.

Abstract

A recent sociological dispute serves to question the explanatory value of resource theories to account for inequality in labor market access. To explain educational success, human resource theories can be countered by organizational theories, in particular by the concept of Institutional Discrimination. The empirical plausibility of this concept is shown with regard to the distribution of apprenticeships in training firms. It is argued that by settling for a narrowed notion of individual productivity, previous research of social inequality has ignored significant organizational rationalities of selection in the educational field & in the labor market.

• Item Type: Articles
• Keywords: Apprenticeships, Educational Opportunities, Employment Opportunities, Racism, Social Inequality, Educational Inequality
• Status: Published
• Refereed: Yes
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Imdorf, Dr Christian
• Authors: Imdorf, C.
• College/School: College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences
• Journal Name: Schweizerische Zeitschrift fur Soziologie/Revue Su
• ISSN: 0379-3664