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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 ...
An Experimental Test of a Reward-Cost Formulation of Status Inconsistency
(2015-07-26)
The authors develop a theory in which consistency of ranks on position and ability affect individual satisfaction and system stability. The mechanism is rewards associated with different patterns. For instance, when position ...
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 Inconsistency: A Reformulation of a Theoretical Problem
(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 ...
Relations among Status, Power and Economic Rewards in Simple and Complex social Systems
(2015-07-28)
This TR continues the author’s interest in status consistency and organizational stability. It describes a process that equilibrates ranks on different dimensions, and then expands the focus to show how equilibrating ...
Organizational Task Performance in Male and Female Groups
(2015-08-15)
The authors analyze different ways that problem solving groups organize structurally. The argument applies to all groups but because of historical facts, all-male and all-female groups instantiate the situations described. ...
Investigation of Pseudo-Mutuality, Double Binding and Scapegoating: An Expectation States Approach.
(2015-08-15)
The author develops a theory, both discursively and formally, of communication ambiguity that can result in the three situations of the title. In a dependent relationship, such as parent-child or teacher-student, an ambiguous ...
Methods for Temporal Analysis
(2015-08-15)
The authors review sociological literature describing different perspectives and uses of studies of change in discrete (qualitative) and quantitative outcomes. They show that, contrary to many injunctions, temporal analysis ...
Legitimation, Endorsement, and Compliance
(2015-08-15)
The theoretical development distinguishes three objects of legitimation, of persons, of positions, and of actions; and three types of legitimacy, propriety, endorsement, and authorization. Propriety is normative support ...
Effects of a Legitimate Authority's Justification of Inequality on the Mobilization of Revolutionary Coalitions
(2015-08-15)
The authors explore revolutionary coalition formation in equitable situations. They posited that actors would form such coalitions if the equitable relations were threatened. Results of an experimental test of that idea ...