Head Games: Introducing Tomorrow's Business Elites to Institutionalized Inequality
作者在商学院教学中发现,技术性课程之外,最紧迫的战略问题是人的尊严和公民参与。本文描述了一项年度校园活动的实证练习,旨在让学生意识到他们集体无意识复制的本地性别、种族和阶级等级制度,并反思这种反思的困难。
The author, who teaches in a business school where much emphasis is placed on managing the imperatives of the `global economy' and committing the 4 P's of marketing to memory, argues that, important as these technical concerns may be, the most pressing strategic business issues remain the enduring ones of human dignity and engaged citizenship. Accordingly, this article describes an empirical exercise that revisits an annual campus event in an attempt to alert students to the local gender, racial, and class hierarchies that they collectively, and `mindlessly', reproduce. Originally conceived as an early exposure to the workings of institutionalized dominance, this exercise evolved into a reflective account of just how difficult a `rethinking through' of this kind can be: testament to the perversely obdurate nature of lived theory.