The Social Construction of Status Value

人们对地位价值持有共识性信念，也就是说， 关于个人的能力和价值。 是 然而，令人困惑的是，这些信念往往主要基于 在无序或名义上的类别，如性别和 这些人属于哪一个种族。 这项建议 审查了这种协商一致地位的互动过程， 可以获取值。 提出了一个理论，认为如果 在给定的标称特性和 经济资源的分配，它限制了面对面 人口内部的互动。 在人与人之间的相遇中 在资源和名义特征上都不同， 约束导致该特征与 地位型信念 当个人把这种状态 与其他遭遇的联系，并据此对待他人， 对相互作用的结构性限制使其能够扩散 广泛地，它成为共识。具体来说，两个实验 将进行测试这一理论。 第一个实验将 显示是否有与 具有不同工资水平和不同名义工资的人 特征将形成期望状态，然后转移到 到后来的情况下，这个人与其他人不同， 人只在名义上的特点，而不是在工资水平。 一 第二个实验检查该过程的更“高级”阶段， 探讨名词性特征可能 即使对于那些已经获得了很高地位的人来说， 资源的价值。 该项目将有助于更好地了解 微观层面的社会进程与 社会和经济安排的资源分配情况 宏观层面。 它还将为研究人员提供信息， 关注不平等问题的政策制定者， 股权

People hold consensual beliefs about the status value, that is, about the competence and worthiness, of individuals. It is puzzling, however, that these beliefs are often based largely upon the unordered or nominal categories, such as gender and ethnicity, to which these individuals belong. This proposal examines the interactive processes by which such consensual status values may be acquired. A theory is proposed that argues that if a correlation occurs between a given nominal characteristic and the distribution of economic resources, it constrains face-to-face interaction within the population. In encounters between people differing in both resources and the nominal characteristic, these constraints lead to an association between that characteristic and status-type beliefs. When individuals bring this status association to other encounters and treat people according to it, the structural constraints on interaction allow it to diffuse widely, and it becomes consensual. Specifically, two experiments will be conducted to test this theory. The first experiment will show whether or not an individual participant who works with a person who has a different pay level and a different nominal characteristic will form expectations states which then transfer to a later situation where that individual differs from the other person only in nominal characteristics but not in pay level. A second experiment examines a more "advanced" stage of the process, exploring situations in which the nominal characteristic might acquire low status value even for people who have obtained a high value of the resource. This project will contribute better understanding of the linkage between social processes at the micro-level and the distribution of resources reflecting social and economic arrangements at the macro-level. It will also provide information for researchers and policy makers who are concerned with issues of inequality and equity.