DO INNER-CITY, AFRICAN-AMERICAN MALES EXHIBIT “BAD ATTITUDES” TOWARD WORK?
Jill Littrell and Elizabeth Beck Many potential employers of inner-city African-American men believe that African-American men have poor work attitudes. The investigations reported here attempted to evaluate the veridicality of this assumption. The responses of African-American men who utilize a soup-kitchen were compared with college men on a variety of attitude measures, as well as on their reactions to a scenario about a man who worked for an unfair boss and quit in response. Generally, little support for the view that inner-city, African-American men have a predilection to presume prejudice or unfairness, or to render a favorable evaluation of quitting under unfair conditions, was found. EXPLOITATION-THE INVISIBLE HAND GUIDED BY A BLIND EYE: CONFRONTING A FLAW IN ECONOMIC THEORY Phillip Dybicz Economics is alone among the social science disciplines in failing to have a sound theory to explain behaviors when people do not act according to their self-interest, that is, with compassio
