Analysis of Inequality in Everyday Life

Everyday people from all works of life experience inequality from their homes to their workplace. It may be in the form of denying girls the right to education, denying people the right to marry, refusing to render services to a certain race or favouring one person against another. Inequality is the condition of being unequal, lack of equality or disparity. This paper will describe and examine the inequality I faced in my workplace through my department manager. I work at a grocery store in the deli department where my manager started a new rule by keeping a journal. My manager writes down all the wrongs an employee did which includes when an employee forget to do a task or anytime an employee called in sick. On Sunday morning, Feb. 16th 2014, I called my manager and told her that I couldn’t come in to work that day because I was sick. When I came back to work on Thursday, a co-worker in my department told me she found out that my manager wrote my name in her journal because I called in sick. On further investigation, I found out that she only wrote the name of employees that are not loyal to her. Those that are devoted to her, particularly two employees that does whatever she wants them to do for her, she didn’t write their names when they both called in sick. I decided to tell my store employee representatives about it.
In addition this paper will analyse my subjectivity which “refers to how a person’s perspective, experiences, and values shape their perception of their everyday world” (Brock, Raby & Thomas, 2012 p.35) on how I experienced inequality in my workplace. Inequality can affect us one way or another starting from person to person micro interaction and extending to the macro society at la...

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...workplace. I learnt about the power the superiors have over their subordinates, normalization, and the concept of role-taking. That people accept unfair treatment they witnessed as the standard in the society. People see it as normal and have no reason to change or go against it. Also that no matter where you are, you will always encounter inequality even from people you trust and is friendly with you. I learnt through observing the interaction between my manager and my co-workers on how she interacted with them, who she grants favour the more, who she is more close to, who never gets written up when an offence occurred. I likewise learnt from talking with my co-workers, those who are not in her favour and from this incident as well. It matters that I learnt about these concepts because it helps me understand the different sociological interaction in our society.