The conflict perspective, symbolic interactionism, and the status characteristics hypothesis

1993 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 541-558 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Triplett
Keyword(s):  
Symbolic Interactionism ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status

scholarly journals Social Structures in Transition: Applications of Two Theories to Chiefdoms

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 237802311877175 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pamela Emanuelson ◽  
David Willer
Keyword(s):  
Elementary Theory ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
High Status ◽  
Structural Form ◽  
Downward Mobility ◽  
Status Characteristics Theory ◽  
The Third ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Lineage Structure

Status characteristics theory and elementary theory are applied to explain developments through three structural forms that chiefdoms are known to take. Theoretic models find that downward mobility inherent in the first form, the status-lineage structure, destabilizes its system of privilege. As a consequence, high-status actors are motivated to find mechanisms to preserve and enhance privilege. By engaging in hostile relations with other chiefdoms, high-status actors offer protection to low-status others from real or imagined threats. Through that protection, they gain tribute and support. The result is structural change from influence based on status to power exercised through indirect coercion, the second structural form. In settled societies, accumulation through war and selective redistribution contribute to separation of warrior and commoner rankings. That separation leads to the third structural form, direct coercive chiefdom.

Construction of Status and Referential Structures

2002 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 157-179 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Berger ◽  
Cecilia L. Ridgeway ◽  
Morris Zelditch
Keyword(s):  
Common Core ◽  
Similar Process ◽  
Cultural Objects ◽  
Core Content ◽  
Status Characteristic ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Task Oriented ◽  
Social Rewards

Beliefs about diverse status characteristics have a common core content of performance capacities and qualities made up of two features: hierarchy (superior/inferior capacities) and role-differentiation (instrumental/expressive qualities). Whatever the status characteristic, its more-valued state tends to be defined as superior and instrumental, and the less-valued state tends to be defined as inferior but expressive. We account for this in terms of the typification of differences in behavioral inequalities and profiles that emerge in task oriented social interaction. Status construction theory argues that new configurations of the states of a nonvalued discriminating characteristic, status values, and status typifications of actors possessing these states arise from a similar process. The theory we present here makes new predictions on the construction and institutionalization of status characteristics and generalized beliefs about the relation of status characteristics to social rewards, called referential structures. This theory, we argue, integrates micro and macro elements in a way that may be applicable to explaining the social construction of cultural objects more generally.

Theoretical Consequences of the Status Characteristics Formulation

1981 ◽  
Vol 86 (5) ◽  
pp. 953-983 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Humphreys ◽  
Joseph Berger
Keyword(s):  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status

Talking with Me or Talking at Me? The Impact of Status Characteristics on Doctor-Patient Interaction

2011 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 547-567 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Mitchell Peck ◽  
Sonya Conner
Keyword(s):  
Talcott Parsons ◽  
Patient Centered ◽  
Status Characteristics Theory ◽  
Race And Gender ◽  
Patient Interaction ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Status Differences

Over the last two decades, the way doctors and patients interact has changed. There has been a shift away from what Talcott Parsons described as a paternalistic model of interaction to a more collaborative, participatory, patient-centered model of interaction. Yet not all interactions between doctors and patients are collaborative. Using status characteristics theory, the authors hypothesized that medical encounters are more likely to be physician dominated when the status differences between doctors and patients are higher. They tested hypotheses about race, gender, and socioeconomic status differences between doctors and patients. The authors found support for the hypotheses, especially regarding status differences for race and gender. Doctor-patient interactions were most physician-centered when doctors had higher status than patients on race (white versus non-white) and gender (male versus female)

The Status Value of Age and Gender: Modeling Combined Effects of Diffuse Status Characteristics

2017 ◽  
pp. 81-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael J. Lovaglia ◽  
Shane D. Soboroff ◽  
Christopher P. Kelley ◽  
Christabel L. Rogalin ◽  
Jeffrey W. Lucas
Keyword(s):  
Combined Effects ◽  
Age And Gender ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
And Gender

scholarly journals Size-Segregated Particulate Mass and Carbonaceous Components in Roadside and Riverside Environments

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (21) ◽  
pp. 10214
Author(s):  
Muhammad Amin ◽  
Rizki Andre Handika ◽  
Rahmi Mulia Putri ◽  
Worradorn Phairuang ◽  
Mitsuhiko Hata ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Biomass Burning ◽  
Positive Influence ◽  
Heavy Vehicles ◽  
Air Sampler ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Particulate Mass ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
Nocturnal Period

Air sampling for 12 h diurnal and nocturnal periods was conducted at two monitoring sites with different characteristics in Jambi City, Sumatra Island, Indonesia. The sampling was done at a roadside site and a riverside site from August 2–9, and from August 7–13 in 2019, respectively. A cascade air sampler was used to obtain information on the status, characteristics and behavior of airborne particles with a particular focus on the ultrafine fraction (PM0.1). The number of light vehicles was best correlated with most PM size categories, while those of heavy vehicles and motorcycles with the 0.5–1 μm and with >10 μm for the nocturnal period, respectively. These findings suggest that there is a positive influence of traffic amount on the PM concentration. Using carbonaceous parameters related to heavy-vehicle emissions such as EC and soot-EC, HV emission was confirmed to account for the PM0.1 fraction more clearly in the roadside environment. The correlation between OC/EC and EC for 0.5–1 μm particles indicated that biomass burning has an influence on both in the diurnal period. A possible transboundary influence was shown as a shift in the PM0.1 fraction characteristic from “urban” to “biomass burning”.

Examining Medical Interview Asymmetry Using the Expectation States Approach

2005 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 187-203 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy J. Gallagher ◽  
Stanford W. Gregory ◽  
Alison J. Bianchi ◽  
Paul J. Hartung ◽  
Sarah Harkness
Keyword(s):  
Behavioral Outcomes ◽  
Standardized Patients ◽  
Medical Interview ◽  
Status Characteristics Theory ◽  
Power Differential ◽  
Clinical Interviews ◽  
Expectation States ◽  
Status Characteristics ◽  
The Status ◽  
Status Difference

In this study we examine medical interview asymmetry using the expectation states approach. Physicians lead clinical interviews because of a feature inherent in those interviews, namely the status difference between doctor and patient. This power differential varies: it is greatest when the biomedical aspects of the interview are emphasized. These observations are consistent with status characteristics theory (SCT), which is based on the expectation states approach to understanding the emergence of power-prestige orders in groups facing shared tasks. From an SCT perspective, when the required scope conditions are met the status characteristics of doctor and patient trigger expectation states that result in inequalities relevant to the biomedical tasks of the interview. We examine interactions between medical students and standardized patients from the perspective of SCT. We observe the emergence of vocal spectrum inequalities when the interview task is biomedical. Other nonverbal behavioral outcomes emerge as well, which are consistent with the asymmetry literature.

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