Discussion

In view of Giddens et al., Chapter 5 and the assigned web materials for that chapter, discuss either of the following:

Describe how any organization of your choice – a business employer, supermarket, department store, restaurant, university, etc. – arranges its physical setting and technology to attempt to control its employees, customers, students, etc.
Choose a specific product (such as food, drink, clothes, cars, household or yard items, etc.). Describe how the advertising industry uses statuses and roles (such as gender, ethnicity, age, and social class) to try to convince us to purchase that product.