The Steakhouse Work Setting: A Role-theory Approach to Social Deviance and Stress

• In Event: White-Collar Crime at 75: Perspectives on Workplace Deviance

Abstract

Based on a year of participant observation in a steakhouse restaurant, this study categorizes numerous styles of stress that emerge in an often hectic and dysfunctional setting. The nature of social deviation and law-breaking associated with the restaurant locale is analyzed from perspectives of role-theory. How such a stress filled work setting may facilitate neutralization of norm-breaking is addressed.

Authors

• Philip F. Austin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania

• Timothy Austin, Indiana University of Pennsylvania