The Association Between Occupation and Anti-Black Attitudes among Working White Women

• In Event: 50220 - Section on Organizations, Occupations, and Work Roundtables
  In Refereed Roundtable (60 minute): Table 9: Racialized Organizations

Abstract

Few sociological studies investigate the association between occupation and whites’ racial attitudes. However, they do not examine variation in racial attitude levels among working white women exclusive of working white men. Overall, sociological studies rarely compare whites’ attitudes across multiple occupations, and few studies do so whilst focusing on gender. Using nine years of General Social Survey data, this study increments white racial attitudes literature by: (1) examining the association between occupation and anti-black attitudes among working white women; (2) invoking occupation as context as the theoretical framework; (3) investigating percentage of white women in an occupation, occupation contact level, occupational precarity as factors contributing to occupational differences in anti-black attitudes among working white women. Findings include significant anti-black attitude level differences across occupations, but raise new questions about specific features of occupational context.

Author

• Autumn Raynor, Rice University