Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Title

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    • Uncertainty, Potential Power, and Nondecisions 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Ford, Joan Butler (Transaction Publishers, 1985)
      The authors develop a definition of potential power—what an actor could to another actor if the first cared strongly enough about something—and explore its properties. Experimental research shows that potential power affects ...
    • The Use of Closed Circuit Television in Expectation Experiments 
      Cohen, Bernard P; Kiker, Joan E; Kruse, Ronald J (2015-07-29)
      The authors present an early description and discussion of the uses of TV systems in social science experiments. They compare two experiments, one conducted live and the other with TV, showing a few minor differences in ...
    • Voluntary Participation in Organizational Decision-Making: A Model and an Experimental Test 
      McMahon, Anne; Camilleri, Santo F (2015-08-11)
      This report was adapted from McMahon's doctoral dissertation, written at Michigan State University. It develops a theory and model for disagreement and consensus. This model has some features in common with a decision ...
    • When Inequality is Equitable: Validity, Propriety and Third Party Allocations 
      Walker, Henry A. (2017-08-16)
      The author summarizes theories of equity and distributive justice that predict actors use legitimate distribution rules to act to maintain or to restore equity. He elaborates those ideas, distinguishing legitimacy based ...
    • Why Do Individuals Nondecide under Uncertainty? 
      Ford, Joan Butler; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      a. This WP continues the investigation in WP 84-3. There, they found that influence accepted by an actor S was negatively related to a central person’s (C) power even if S did not know how C’s preferences or how likely C ...