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On Conservative Attitudes
(2015-07-13)
This paper argues that rank disequilibrium (or status inconsistency) is a factor in developing right-wing attitudes. The topic had contemporary relevance with the prominence of the John Birch Society, the Christian ...
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, ...
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 ...
Expectations, Shared Awareness, and Power
(2017-08-16)
The authors develop a theory of expectations about interpersonal power to control rewards and punishments, and to induce compliance. They present an extended review of conceptions of power, and identify four empirical ...
Why Do Individuals Nondecide under Uncertainty?
(2017-08-16)
a. This WP continues the investigation in WP 84-3. There, they found that influence accepted by an actor S was negatively related to a central person’s (C) power even if S did not know how C’s preferences or how likely C ...
How are Inconsistencies between Status and Ability Resolved?
(2015-08-15)
This Technical Report (similar to 32, 35 and 53) addresses the form of combination of status characteristics with particular interest in developing the theory of status characteristics and expectation states for multi- ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...