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

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    • How are Inconsistencies between Status and Ability Resolved? 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Lauderdale, Patrick; Stublarec, Steven (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- ...
    • The Impact of Selected Social Environmental and Individual Factors on Stress Responses 
      Montoya, Valerie C.; Barr-Bryan, Dorine; Perlaki, Kinga M.; Barchas, Patricia R. (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors attempt to clarify some factors in the relationships between high levels of stress and poor physical and mental health. They review many possible sources of individual variation in responses to stress, ...
    • Indices of Hemispheric Lateralization: A Methodological Analysis 
      Mills, D J; Perlaki, K M; Barchas, P R (2015-08-15)
      The authors describe and evaluate several indices of brain hemisphere lateralization. The methods use different data, including response accuracy, reaction times, and EEG asymmetry. They describe an index- free ranking ...
    • Interactionist Hypotheses of Self-Conception 
      Moore, James C. (2015-07-06)
      Moore replicated and extended a finding of Miyamoto and Dornbusch (1956) with a different population in a different setting. Self-concepts of married couples were closely linked with their spouses’ views, but even more ...
    • Interdependence, Interaction, and Productivity 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo (2017-08-16)
      Group tasks require communication, but communication can be excessive and time-wasting. The authors develop propositions group productivity and interaction. High reciprocal interdependence in teams requires high levels of ...
    • Interdisciplinary Research Teams as Status Systems 
      Kruse, Ronald J; Anbar, Michael; Burns, Sarah E; Cohen, Bernard P (2015-08-15)
      Research teams may be studied as social systems organized along dimensions of status, such as rights to evaluate others and to allocate rewards. “Status consistency” is the degree to which salient statuses an individual ...
    • Introduction to a Theory of Group Structure and Information Exchange 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Silver, Steven D. (2017-08-16)
      This theoretical paper develops a framework for relationships between group structure and information exchange. Status orders among group members are important in situations that lack well-developed practices for work and ...
    • Investigation of Pseudo-Mutuality, Double Binding and Scapegoating: An Expectation States Approach. 
      Johnston, Janet R (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 ...
    • Legitimacy and Collective Action 
      Thomas, George M.; Walker, Henry A.; Zelditch, Morris Jr (2017-08-16)
      This is a revision of WP 84-4. The authors develop an explicit theoretical foundation for the common belief that legitimation is somehow important in mobilizing collective action. They distinguish validity of a rule ...
    • Legitimacy and the Support of Revolutionary Coalitions 
      Walker, Henry A.; Rogers, Larry; Lyman, Katherine; Zelditch, Morris Jr (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, ...
    • The Legitimacy of Redistributive Agendas 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Gilliland, Edward; Thomas, George M (2017-08-16)
      a. The authors investigate the idea of nondecisions regarding redistributive political agenda. They focus on an idea that the greater the likelihood that a policy would redistribute resources, the less likely that policy ...
    • Legitimation, Endorsement, and Compliance 
      Walker, Henry A; Thomas, George M; Zelditch, Morris Jr (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 ...
    • Methods for Temporal Analysis 
      Hannan, Michael T; Tuma, Nancy Brandon (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 ...
    • Models of Change in Quantitative Variables, Part I: Deterministic Models 
      Hannan, Michael T (2015-08-15)
      The author explores methodological issues in developing stochastic models for changes in quantitative variables. The general approach here is to treat observed distributions as reflecting distributions of probabilities of ...
    • Modes of Status Equilibration 
      Kimberly, James C.; Crosbie, Paul V.; Lehr, Eugene W. (2017-08-24)
      This is a revision of TR#23, focusing on the experimental tests.
    • Multi-Characteristic Status Situations and the Determination of Power and Prestige Order 
      Berger, Joseph; Fisek, M. Hamit; Crosbie, Paul V (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 ...
    • A (Not So) Quick and Dirty Look at Robust M-Estimation 
      Wu, Lawrence L. (2017-08-16)
      a. Robust estimators, those procedures that distinguish likely from unlikely distributions, sometimes are preferable to either parametric or distribution-free estimations. This WP explores statistical properties of maximum ...
    • On Conservative Attitudes 
      Anderson, Bo; Zelditch, Morris Jr; Takagi, Paul; Whiteside, Don (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 ...
    • On the Balance of a Set of Ranks 
      Zelditch, Morris Jr; Anderson, Bo (2015-07-13)
      This theoretical paper addresses what was then called “status consistency” or “status crystallization.” Discrepant ranks on different characteristics such as income, occupational prestige, education, race, and religion ...
    • Organization and productivity in R & D Teams: A Report of Research Findings 
      Cohen, Bernard P.; Arechavala-Vargas, Ricardo; Nobel, Darla R.; Shenhav, Yehouda A. (American Sociological Review, 1991)
      The authors report findings from 224 teams in Silicon Valley on the effects of factors on team productivity and innovativeness. The factors are of four types: interaction, team composition, team organization, and perceptions ...