Doctoral Dissertation Research: Collective Validation in Multi-Actor Task Settings: Extending the Berger et al. Theory of Legitimation

这个项目扩展了导致建立合法权威结构的过程理论;也就是说，那些成员认为服从命令的人是正确和适当的。 该理论的一个方面是“集体验证”的思想，这意味着行为者和观察者都注意到群体成员的顺从或不顺从行为，并根据他们的观察，将合法性或不合法性归咎于行为者的权威。 这项工作的理论基础是指定条件下，集体验证变得或多或少可能发生。最简单地说，要检验的条件涉及行动者和观察者的地位关系。 该奖项支持的实验测试将评估扩展理论的衍生物。 结果将用于继续理论发展，并在此奖项下开发的实验技术将被用作未来研究计划的基础。

This project extends a theory of processes leading to the establishment of legitimate authority structures; that is, those in which members consider it right and proper to obey the people giving orders. One aspect of that theory is the idea of "collective validation," meaning that both actors and observers note compliant or noncompliant behavior by group members, and on the basis of their observations, impute legitimacy or not to the actors' authority. The theoretical basis of this work is to specify conditions under which collective validation becomes more or less likely to occur. Most simply, the condition to be tested involves the status relations of actors and observers. Experimental tests supported by this award will assess derivations from the extended theory. Results will be used to continue theoretical development, and the experimental techniques developed under this award will be used as the foundation for a future research program.