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Programs, Theory, and Metatheory
(2017-08-16)
The authors respond to two critiques of their article “Do Sociological Theories Grow?” (1985). This WP is a somewhat longer version of their published responses (1986).
Status Characteristics and Expectation States: A Process Model
(2015-07-21)
This technical report describes how status inequality can produce similar inequality of expectation states, and how the interaction process is affected by the status generalization process. It elaborates some ideas in the ...
Evaluations and the Formation and Maintenance of Performance Expectations
(2015-07-28)
The authors elaborate the theory and model presented inTechnical Report 18 on the formation and maintenance of performance expectation states in task groups, and their effects on group structure and interaction. The main ...
Distributive Justice: A Status Value Formulation
(2015-07-29)
The authors present a theory of distributive justice, feelings that a distribution of benefits and burdens to particular individuals is right and proper. They distinguish local systems and referential structures, and the ...
Status Conditions of Self Evaluation
(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 ...
Performance Expectations and Behavior in Small Groups
(2015-07-21)
This Technical Report presents the theoretical account for relations among power and prestige behaviors in small groups and performance expectation states. It explains, among other things, the high correlations among several ...
Status Conditions of Self-Evaluation
(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.
Expectation States Theory: The Status of a Research Program
(2015-08-15)
This technical report updates the theoretical developments and empirical research in the program since the review by Berger, Rosenholtz, and Zelditch (1980).
Some Logical Consequences of the Status Characteristics Theory
(2015-08-15)
Humphreys, a logician,and Berger, a sociological theorist, derive five theorems from the theory in Berger et al. (1977). Some of the theorems formally account for the link of status inequality to inequality in group structure ...
Status Organizing Processes
(2015-08-15)
The authors review theoretical and empirical work related to the theory of status characteristics and expectation states to this date,1980.