Search
Now showing items 1-10 of 22
Consistent and Inconsistent Social Characteristics and the Determination of Power and Prestige Orders
(2015-08-06)
The work reported here was significant in the generalization of the first theory of status characteristics and expectation states (Technical Report #12 and Berger et al., 1966). The first theory could only account for ...
Performance Expectation and Behavior in Small Groups
(2015-07-29)
This is a revision of Technical Report 18.
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 ...
Status Characteristics and Social Interaction
(2015-08-10)
The authors review literature on effects of status differences on interaction and formulate general principles of status generalization to explain them. Next they conduct direct tests of the explanation in an experimental ...
Paths of Consistent and Inconsistent Status Information and the Induction of Relevance
(2015-08-15)
The concern is to determine the process by which directly relevant, and inversely relevant characteristics function to affect expectation states. Results of a four-condition experiment showed that dissimilarity alone of ...
Multi-Characteristic Status Situations and the Determination of Power and Prestige Order
(2015-08-06)
This technical report builds on the research reported in Technical Report 32. It reports a second experiment investigating how two status characteristics affect expectations and power and prestige. The theoretical goal ...
Do Sociological Theories Grow?
(2015-08-15)
The authors claim that theoretical growth is often obscured by a narrow definition of “growth,” one that emphasizes only empirical support for a unit theory. They introduce the idea of theoretical research programs, ...
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 ...