Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Title
Now showing items 73-92 of 95
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(JAI Press, 1991)The author compares and evaluates variant theories proposed in the literature for the processing of status information and effects of expectation states on behavior. The issue was to determine conditions under which, if ...
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(2015-07-28)The authors develop a theory of structural and interactional factors involved in processes by which evaluations from others can affect one’s self-evaluation. The theory defines an effective “source” of evaluations, and ...
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(2017-08-24)This is a revision of TR#24. It expands the discussion of conditions for stability, adding the idea of cliques that support stable self-evaluations.
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(2015-07-28)This technical report is a further elaboration of the exchange-based theory of status consistency and individuals’ reactions to various patterns that was presented in technical report 21. The extended theory predicts ...
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(2015-07-19)James C. Kimberly’s theory is an alternate to the theory developed in TR#7 and to other theories of status inconsistency. Kimberly posits that individuals take their least changeable (ascribed) rank as the focal rank and ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors review theoretical and empirical work related to the theory of status characteristics and expectation states to this date,1980.
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(2015-08-06)The general issue in this report is whether one’s position in a hierarchy affects how one judges other positions. Important instances include judging occupational prestige and distributive justice. The author briefly ...
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(2015-08-11)This appears to be a revision of Technical Report 39 with the same title. A footnote in this report describes it as a revised and extended version of a paper presented at the annual meetings of the American Sociological ...
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(American Sociological Review, 1991)This WP was published by Cohen and Zhou (1991).
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(2017-08-16)The authors conducted experimental research on the acceptability of excuses (a personal account of making a procedural error) and justifications (an argument for what the violator had done) for norm violation. The actor ...
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(2015-07-06)This technical report introduces the concept of self-other expectations (Joseph Berger’s [1958] dissertation also includes that term, although defined slightly differently), and develops propositions about their behavioral ...
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(Stanford University Press, 1993)The authors describe unit theories, theoretical research programs, and orienting strategies, and elaborate on types of growth in theoretical research programs. This WP was published by the authors (1993).
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(2015-08-12)The authors present a theoretical analysis of relations between technology and formal organizational structures. After critically evaluating other approaches, they propose a finer-grained analysis to examine relations ...
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(Social Psychological Quarterly, 1988)a. This WP continues investigations in WP 84-3 and 84-10. The authors report an experiment in which they varied the expected likelihood that an advantaged central actor would punish others for attempting to change an ...
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(Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations, 1989)This WP was published by Berger, Eyre, and Zelditch (1989).
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(2015-08-15)The authors analyze structures and processes in multidisciplinary teams to identify factors that lead to synergistic outcomes from those that do not. They use the analysis to describe settings most likely to produce ...
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(2015-07-19)Thomas L. Conner describes development and testing of Meaning Insight and Relational Insight 1 and 2. The tasks, which are still in use for expectation states research, were developed to test ideas in TR#1 and later ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors investigate transfer of a status intervention—introducing a specific status characteristic to reduce expectation effects of a diffuse status characteristic—across tasks and interactants. Experimental results ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...