The Role of Organizational Structures.

The article studies the role of organizational structures. The residential neighborhood is the special locale in which individuals attempt to realize such interests as the protection of property values and personal and social deference. The authors tested the paper in the midwest by analyzing the rejection or acceptance of Negroes in a residential neighborhood and on the job. The two situations mentioned involved the same white individuals. The white individuals all lived in a residential neighborhood which had a pattern of strong rejection of Negroes and yet the same individuals participated in a union which strongly accepted Negroes on an equal basis. The study of individual behavior was preceded by an intensive study of the two situations involved, with particular emphasis on their organizational structure.