Who Gets Promoted and Who Gets Fired? Sociology professor’s
research provides new insight into certain types of
discrimination Discrimination can come in many forms. It can be
based on sex, race and even factors such as pregnancy.
Researching discrimination and teaching students about it is the
focus of Sociology Professor Reggie Byron’s work. Byron began
studying discrimination while working on his master’s degree at
The Ohio State University. Researchers there were able to obtain
data from more than 60,000 employment and housing discrimination
complaints made to the Ohio Civil Rights Commission between 1986
and 2003 that were investigated and closed.The data included
both quantitative variables and rich qualitative narratives,
which is particularly rare. To date, the researchers have
generated eight articles and one book based on this data.
Byron’s first solo paper based on the data appears in the
November 2010 issue of the international sociological journal
Work and Occupations. The paper compares the rate