Doctoral Dissertation Research: The Consequences of Status Inconsistency.

在整个社会科学领域，研究表明，地位是一个无所不在的、重要的文化概念，与社会类别（如种族、性别）和社会角色（如职业）有关。本论文研究关注的是地位的相互作用，特别关注一个人占据社会角色的后果，这种社会角色在文化上与与他们的社会类别不一致的广义地位、尊重或尊重水平相关。这类人的例子有黑人女工程师、家庭主父、男秘书和追求非典型性别专业的大学生。本项目细化了状态不一致的概念，并开发了一个原始的、通用的理论模型，用于描述占据状态不一致角色的后果。该项目主要围绕三个主要研究问题：1)状态不一致如何影响判断？2)这些偏见的具体后果是什么？3)身份不一致的理由在哪些方面缓和了这些偏见和后果？该研究将使用社会科学实验技术来测量参与者在各种情况下对这些反应的看法、态度和理由。更广泛的影响这个项目的贡献是建立一个单一的、通用的模型，说明地位不一致如何影响个人在社会角色中的经历。该模型的普遍性使其适用于广泛的情况，例如高等教育和高地位职业的多元化招聘，因为少数民族个体在这些环境中往往地位不一致。另一个例子是，全职爸爸的地位不一致，男性作为照顾者所面临的负面社会后果可能是男性很少更多地参与家务和照顾孩子的部分原因。因此，该项目有助于理解教育、工作场所和家庭中的不平等现象。

SES-1302715 PI: Shelley CorrellCo-PI: Alec WattsStanford University Across the social sciences, research has demonstrated that status is an omnipresent and consequential cultural concept associated with both social categories (e.g., race, gender) and social roles (e.g., occupations). This dissertation research is concerned with the interactions of status, focusing specifically on the consequences of a person occupying a social role that is culturally associated with a level of generalized status, respect or esteem that is inconsistent with their social category. Examples of such individuals are black women engineers, stay-at-home dads, male secretaries, and college students who pursue majors atypical for their gender. This project refines the concept of status inconsistency and develops an original, general theoretical model of the consequences of occupying a status-inconsistent role. The project is centered on three primary research questions: 1) How does status inconsistency bias judgment? 2) What are the tangible consequences of these biases? And 3) In what ways do justifications for being status-inconsistent moderates these biases and consequences? The research will use social science experimental techniques to measure participants' perceptions, attitudes, and justifications of those responses in a variety of contexts. Broader ImpactThe contribution of this project is to develop a single, general model of how status inconsistency can shape an individual's experiences in a social role. The generalizability of the model allows for its applicability across a vast range of situations, such as diversity recruitment in higher education and high status occupations, as minority individuals are often status-inconsistent in these settings. As another example, stay-at-home dads are status-inconsistent and the negative social consequences men face as caretakers may be partly responsible for the dearth of men being more involved in housework and childcare. Thus, this project contributes to understanding inequalities in education, workplaces, and in homes.