Journal article
Testing the spread of status value theory
Social science research, Vol.40(6), pp.1652-1663
2011
DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.04.005
Abstract
How can a nominal descriptive term acquire status beliefs and definitions giving it connotations of differential social worth and competence? Cecilia L. Ridgeway and her associates have developed one theory explaining such effects. Recently Joseph Berger and Hamit Fişek offered a new theory using different mechanisms. We report the first experimental tests of the new theory. One mechanism describes spread of status value through referent individuals who possess both nominal and status characteristics. A second mechanism predicts spread of status value directly from status elements including education and income, without intervening referent actors. Results show that both mechanisms can create positive and negative status value for a nominal characteristic as predicted.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Testing the spread of status value theory
- Creators
- Lisa Slattery Walker - University of North Carolina at CharlotteMurray Webster - University of North Carolina at CharlotteAlison J. Bianchi - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Social science research, Vol.40(6), pp.1652-1663
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.04.005
- ISSN
- 0049-089X
- eISSN
- 1096-0317
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2011
- Academic Unit
- Sociology and Criminology
- Record Identifier
- 9984306246202771
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