Browsing Stanford Sociology Technical Reports and Working Papers, 1961-1993 by Title
Now showing items 11-30 of 95
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(2015-08-15)Political decisions at all stages, from community to country,occur only after a process of agenda setting. Nondecisions result from failing to raise an issue to the appropriate decision-making body, and occur through ...
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(2015-07-21)Moore builds on the work of Conner (Technical Report #11) to develop an entirely new experimental task. This task, with the important restriction that stimuli are presented in a particular order, does successfully meet the ...
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(Stanford University Press, 1988)This WP was prepared for a conference on the current state and future prospects for status and expectations research. It summarizes theoretical and empirical investigations, and describes the present structure of the ...
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(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 ...
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(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, ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors apply event history analysis to records on 90 countries from 1950-1975 to test hypotheses consistent with world systems and modernization hypotheses. The hypotheses predict factors associated with political ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors measured alpha brain wave activity from volunteers as a function of gender of experimenter and gender of volunteer. Cross-gender combinations, especially for male volunteer—female experimenter, showed different ...
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(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 ...
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(2015-08-06)The author analyzed questionnaire responses from students in 99 colleges. College effects were much smaller than individual background factors and freshman occupational choices. Larger colleges tended to shift occupational ...
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(2015-08-12)The authors propose a theory in which status generalization from a diffuse status characteristic such as age, race or gender can be eliminated by introducing contradictory information about a specific status characteristic ...
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(2015-08-15)The authors describe methodological issues of panel analysis designs; in particular, autocorrelation of errors across waves. They recommend constructing a “pooled” model of data from all waves to deal with design and ...
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(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 ...
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(2015-08-10)This reports a study of the extent of violence and disorder, drug use, vandalism and theft, and racial conflicts in high schools, and of attempts at social control. The authors analyzed two national surveys of school ...
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(2015-08-15)This technical report updates the theoretical developments and empirical research in the program since the review by Berger, Rosenholtz, and Zelditch (1980).
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(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 ...
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(2017-08-16)a. The authors address gender stereotypes: women are passive, dependent, compliant, cooperative, and socially oriented; while men are independent, competitive, and task-focused. They note that those behaviors are found in ...