Why Do Nominal Characteristics Acquire Status Value? A Minimal Explanation for Status ConstructionWhy Do Nominal Characteristics Acquire Status Value? A Minimal Explanation for Status Construction  

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Smith-Lovin, Lynn ; Ridgeway, Cecilia L. ; Mark, Noah P.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: AJS: American Journal of Sociology vol. 115 no. 03 (Nov. 2009), page 832-862.
Topik: Nominal Characteristics; Status Construction
Fulltext: The American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 115, No. 3 (November 2009), pp. 832-862 (win).pdf (209.29KB)

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Why do beliefs that attach different amounts of status to different categories of people become consensually held by the members of a society? We show that two microlevel mechanisms, in combination, imply a system-level tendency toward consensual status beliefs about a nominal characteristic. (1) Status belief diffusion: a person who has no status belief about a charactereistic can acquire a status belief about that characteristic from interacting with one or more people who have that status belief. (2) Status belief loss: a person who has a status belief about a characteristic can lose that belief from interacting with one or more people who have the opposite status belief. These mechanisms imply that opposite atatus beliefs will tend to be lost at equal rates and will tend to be acquired at rates proportional to their prevalence. Therefore, if a status belief ever becomes more prevalent than its opposite, it will increase in prevalence until every person holds it.

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