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

Masculinity and Male Dominance

1987 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 721-743 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ian Craib
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Ideal Type ◽  
Male Dominance ◽  
Object Relations Theory ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Ideal Types ◽  
The Status ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Ideal

The problems with established sociological and socio-psychological conceptions of masculinity are discussed, and it is argued that object-relations theory can provide a clearer understanding of masculinity. An ideal type of the development of masculinity is built up in contrast to similar ideal types of human development and the development of femininity as portrayed by recent feminist writers. The status of the ideal type is then discussed, drawing out its implications for the relationship between psychoanalysis and sociological analysis, and for the nature of social change.

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)

scholarly journals The employment of Łódź University tourism and recreation graduates: A sociological analysis

Turyzm ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74
Author(s):  
Remigiusz Żulicki
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Regression ◽  
Institutional Characteristics ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
Independent Variables ◽  
Graduate Employment ◽  
The Status ◽  
Quantitative Results ◽  
One Year ◽  
The University

This article is focused on selected aspects of the economic ‘fate’ of Tourism and Recreation graduates of the University of Łódź (UŁ). Its aim is to seek answers to the question: ‘What determines graduate employment?’ Surveys conducted by the Career Office of University of Łódź among graduates one year after graduation in 2014, 2015 and 2016 are the empirical basis. Tourism and Recreation graduates were compared with others from the Faculty of Geographical Sciences UŁ. The logistic regression technique was used to predict the status of graduate employment based on independent variables. The strongest predictors of graduate employment were structural and institutional characteristics. The quantitative results were interpreted in the context of the modern role of universities.

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

Is the Bahá’í Faith a World Religion?

1994 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
S. Fazel
Keyword(s):  
Religious Movement ◽  
Sociological Analysis ◽  
World Religion ◽  
Baha'i Faith ◽  
The Status

This article will explore some of the issues involved in the sociological analysis of the status of the Bahá’í Faith. It will endeavor to present criteria for the labels “world religion” and “new religious movement,” as well as explore to what extent the Bahá’í Faith fulfils these criteria. It will attempt to demonstrate that the Bahá’í Faith is best categorized as a “world religion.”

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