Third parties and status position: How the characteristics of status systems matter
Third parties and status position: How the characteristics of status systems matter
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第三方和身份地位：地位系统的特征如何重要
DOI：
10.1007/s11186-006-9005-x
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发表时间：
2006
影响因子：
2.9
通讯作者：
Michael Sauder
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作者：
Michael Sauder
对于组织和个人来说，地位决定了他们获得各种有价值的奖励。为了揭示身份地位的原因，最近的研究集中在个体组织的属性与其在身份等级中的地位之间的关系。虽然这项研究为我们理解地位对组织的影响和地位的决定因素做出了宝贵的贡献，但它对组织属性的强调并没有解决地位系统的特征如何塑造这些职位的性质和分布。本文利用134位法学院管理者和教师的深度访谈数据，探讨了身份系统特征的变化如何影响身份过程。集中在理论上不发达的作用，第三方在状态系统中发挥，我研究如何第三方的变化-美国新闻与世界报道的法学院排名的出现和日益普及-有强大的影响力的形状上的地位等级的法律的教育，以及该层次结构的基础上的价值观。这些变化反过来又改变了行为者可利用的职位格局、在不同行为者之间分配这些职位的过程以及进行这种分配的基础。
For organizations, as for individuals, status position governs access to a variety of valued rewards. To uncover the causes of status position, recent research has focused on the relationship between the attributes of individual organizations and their standing in a status hierarchy. Although this research has made valuable contributions to our understanding of both the consequences of status to organizations and the determinants of status, its emphasis on organizational attributes has not addressed how the characteristics of status systems shape the nature and distribution of these positions. Drawing on data from 134 in-depth interviews with law school administrators and faculty, this article investigates how variations in the characteristics of status systems influence status processes. Concentrating on the theoretically underdeveloped role that third parties play in status systems, I examine how a third party change – the emergence and increasing popularity of the U.S. News and World Report’s law school rankings – has had powerful effects on the shape of the status hierarchy of legal education as well as the values that underlie this hierarchy. These changes have, in turn, transformed the landscape of positions that are available to actors, the process by which these positions are allocated among various actors, and the bases upon which this allocation is carried out.