Status and Behavior

SES-1250342默里韦伯斯特丽莎沃克大学的北卡罗来纳州，夏洛特这个项目发展和阐述理论的地位概括。这些理论描述了在更大的社会中赋予优势和劣势的地位特征（如性别、教育或年龄）是如何被“导入”的，并影响面对面任务组中的权力和声望（如参与率、影响力和领导选择）。这项工作导致了理论指导的干预措施，以减少或消除不必要的地位泛化种族，性别，民族，和学校和组织中的其他地位特征。之前NSF资助的一项研究通过将行为模式（如顺从和自信）的影响添加到地位效应中来发展这项研究。这个新项目进一步扩大了这条调查线的范围，包括文化信仰（如与性别相关的适当行为）与地位和行为的相互作用。本研究将探讨不同的身份和行为组合如何影响任务工作中绩效期望的形成。该研究将采用复杂的实验设计来探索这些关系。实验的参与者将是从大班招募的男性和女性有偿志愿者。更广泛的影响本研究的结果有助于地位概括的理论研究计划，并为进一步研究信念，结构和行为奠定了基础。他们将提出通过增加行为和突出文化信仰来控制地位效应的新方法。它们还有助于跟踪不断变化的文化信仰，例如性别对以任务为中心的互动的重要性可能下降。研究结果也有影响，开发新的实验技术，将被其他研究人员使用，培训研究生在理论建设，实验设计和操作，数据分析和存档的各个阶段。该项目还将培训本科生招聘，计算机调度和面对面面试。

SES-1250342Murray WebsterLisa WalkerUniversity of North Carolina, CharlotteThis project develops and elaborates theories of status generalization. These theories describe how status characteristics that confer advantages and disadvantages in the larger society (such as gender, education, or age) get "imported" and affect dimensions of power and prestige (such as participation rates, influence, and leadership choices) in face to face task groups. The work has led to theoretically guided interventions to reduce or eliminate unwanted status generalization from race, gender, ethnicity, and other status characteristics in schools and organizations. A previous NSF funded grant developed this research by adding effects of behavior patterns (such as deference and assertiveness) to status effects. This new project further expands the scope of this line of inquiry to include interactions of cultural beliefs (such as appropriate behaviors associated with gender) with status and behavior. The research will investigate how various combinations of status and behavior affect the formation of performance expectations within task work. The study will employ a complex experimental design to explore these relationships. Participants in the experiment will be male and female paid volunteers recruited from large classes. Broader ImpactResults of this research contribute to the status generalization theoretical research program and can lay a foundation for further investigations of beliefs, structure and behavior. They will suggest new ways to control status effects by adding behavior and making cultural beliefs salient. They also help track changing cultural beliefs, such as possible decline in the significance of gender for task focused interaction. Findings also have implications for developing new experimental techniques that will be used by other investigators, training a graduate student in all stages of theory building, experimental design and operations, and data analysis and archiving. The project also will train undergraduates in recruiting, computer scheduling and face to face interviewing.