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Status Characteristics and Expectation States
(2015-07-19)
This is the first statement of the theory of status characteristics and expectation states and a form of the manuscipt was published by the authors (1966). The theory generalizes the theory of performance expectations first ...
Three Tasks for Use in Laboratory Small-Group Experiments
(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 ...
Status Characteristics and Social Interaction: An Assessment of Theoretical Variants
(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 ...
Theoretical Structures and the Micro-Macro Problem
(Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations, 1989)
This WP was published by Berger, Eyre, and Zelditch (1989).
Organization and productivity in R & D Teams: A Report of Research Findings
(American Sociological Review, 1991)
The authors report findings from 224 teams in Silicon Valley on the effects of factors on team productivity and innovativeness. The factors are of four types: interaction, team composition, team organization, and perceptions ...
Expected Managerial Careers within Growing and Declining R & D Establishments
(Work and Organizations, 1988)
The author notes that many studies have used individual-level variables to predict a tendency of scientists to aspire to managerial careers, and proposes that a better understanding of such career progression would include ...
Strategies, Theories, and Models
(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).
Expectations, Theory, and Group Processes
(Social Psychology Quarterly, 1992)
The author describes his career and the growth of the Expectation States research program. This talk was delivered when Joseph Berger received the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of the American ...
Legitimacy and the Support of Revolutionary Coalitions
(2017-08-16)
The authors develop a theory of conditions under which inequity will lead to attempts to change the structure. Factors affecting the likelihood of attempts include power differences, false consciousness, low self-esteem, ...
Expected Managerial Careers within Growing and Declining R & D Establishments
(Scientometrics, 1989)
The authors distinguish six types of productivity in different contexts and develop six corresponding scales and estimate reliability coefficients. Coefficients differ depending on context, supporting an argument that the ...