Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Title

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    • Status Processes in Permanent Work Groups 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Hooper, Jon; Zhou, Xueguang (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      This WP was published by Cohen and Zhou (1991).
    • Status, Excuses, and Justifications 
      Freeman, Sabrina; Massey, Kelly; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      The authors conducted experimental research on the acceptability of excuses (a personal account of making a procedural error) and justifications (an argument for what the violator had done) for norm violation. The actor ...
    • A Stochastic Theory for Self-Other Expectations 
      Berger, Joseph; Snell, J. Laurie (2015-07-06)
      This technical report introduces the concept of self-other expectations (Joseph Berger’s [1958] dissertation also includes that term, although defined slightly differently), and develops propositions about their behavioral ...
    • Strategies, Theories, and Models 
      Berger, Joseph; Zelditch, Morris Jr (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).
    • Task Conceptions and Work Arrangements 
      Scott, W Richard; Dornbusch, Sanford M; Evashwick, Connie J; Magnani, Leonard; Sagatun, Inger (2015-08-12)
      The authors present a theoretical analysis of relations between technology and formal organizational structures. After critically evaluating other approaches, they propose a finer-grained analysis to examine relations ...
    • A Test of the Law of Anticipated Reactions 
      Ford, Joan Butler; Zelditch, Morris Jr (Social Psychological Quarterly, 1988)
      a. This WP continues investigations in WP 84-3 and 84-10. The authors report an experiment in which they varied the expected likelihood that an advantaged central actor would punish others for attempting to change an ...
    • Theoretical Structures and the Micro-Macro Problem 
      Berger, Joseph; Eyre, Dana P. (Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations, 1989)
      This WP was published by Berger, Eyre, and Zelditch (1989).
    • Threats to the Promise of Synergy in Interdisciplinary Reearch 
      Kruse, Ronald J; Anbar, Michael; Cohen, Bernard P (2015-08-15)
      The authors analyze structures and processes in multidisciplinary teams to identify factors that lead to synergistic outcomes from those that do not. They use the analysis to describe settings most likely to produce ...
    • Three Tasks for Use in Laboratory Small-Group Experiments 
      Conner, Thomas L. (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 ...
    • The Transfer of Status Expectations 
      Markovsky, Barry; Smith, Le Roy F; Berger, Joseph (2015-08-15)
      The authors investigate transfer of a status intervention—introducing a specific status characteristic to reduce expectation effects of a diffuse status characteristic—across tasks and interactants. Experimental results ...
    • Uncertainty, Potential Power, and Nondecisions 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Ford, Joan Butler (Transaction Publishers, 1985)
      The authors develop a definition of potential power—what an actor could to another actor if the first cared strongly enough about something—and explore its properties. Experimental research shows that potential power affects ...
    • The Use of Closed Circuit Television in Expectation Experiments 
      Cohen, Bernard P; Kiker, Joan E; Kruse, Ronald J (2015-07-29)
      The authors present an early description and discussion of the uses of TV systems in social science experiments. They compare two experiments, one conducted live and the other with TV, showing a few minor differences in ...
    • Voluntary Participation in Organizational Decision-Making: A Model and an Experimental Test 
      McMahon, Anne; Camilleri, Santo F (2015-08-11)
      This report was adapted from McMahon's doctoral dissertation, written at Michigan State University. It develops a theory and model for disagreement and consensus. This model has some features in common with a decision ...
    • When Inequality is Equitable: Validity, Propriety and Third Party Allocations 
      Walker, Henry A. (2017-08-16)
      The author summarizes theories of equity and distributive justice that predict actors use legitimate distribution rules to act to maintain or to restore equity. He elaborates those ideas, distinguishing legitimacy based ...
    • Why Do Individuals Nondecide under Uncertainty? 
      Ford, Joan Butler; Zelditch, Morris Jr (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 ...