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    Categorization by Organizations: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District

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    2019-07
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    Saatcioglu, Argun
    Skrtic, Thomas M.
    Publisher
    University of Chicago Press
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    The authors propose and test the concept of categorical manipulation, a process in which subordinate group demands for greater access to high-status categories are met with reversals in the hierarchy of existing categories. The analysis addresses a school district’s response to pressure from a racial desegregation movement to improve black access to a high-status majority-white disability category. The district complied, but it also allowed whites to migrate to a low-status majority-black category, from which blacks then were excluded. This category was enhanced with benefits desirable to whites. The original categorical hierarchy was restored during resegregation 20 years later. In categorical manipulation, subordinate groups gain greater access to high-status categories, but these categories suffer in value as dominant groups reaffiliate with previously low-status categories, which may be revised for improvements. This is different from more familiar forms of resistance to change such as symbolic compliance, ritualization, and tokenism.
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    http://hdl.handle.net/1808/31634
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1086/703957
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    Argun Saatcioglu and Thomas M. Skrtic, Categorization by Organizations: Manipulation of Disability Categories in a Racially Desegregated School District, American Journal of Sociology 2019 125:1, 184-260

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