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Renfrow, Daniel G. "Sexuality as social status /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 2005. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8864.
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Lawless, DesJardins Nicole. "Social Status across Contexts." Thesis, University of Oregon, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1794/20460.
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Social groups without formally designated leaders spontaneously form status-based hierarchies in order to facilitate efficient and effective progress toward a common goal. The prevailing theoretical perspectives about who tends to attain status in these groups suggest that status allocation should be context-dependent. That is, the person who is given the most status should have qualities that help the group achieve its goal, and, because goals vary across groups, the characteristics that predict status should also vary. However, most research to date has focused only on the individual differences that predict status across a wide variety of situations, and has largely neglected the role of the specific context in which the group is situated. The primary aim of this dissertation was to investigate the contextualized, interpersonal processes that contribute to status attainment. To this end, I investigated the consistency with which the same people attained status across different groups and relationships, and how stable individual differences and social context interacted to predict status in a variety of situations and relationships.
In the first study, N = 346 participants completed up to four activities with four different groups of their peers. Status attainment was moderately consistent across groups. Extraversion and its aspects, assertiveness and enthusiasm, as well as compassion, conscientiousness and intellect predicted status across all four tasks. The largest differences in the predictors of status attainment appeared to be due to how the task was completed, rather than the goal of the task: generally pro-social attributes predicted status attainment in collaborative tasks, whereas neuroticism and low agreeableness predicted status in more knowledge-based, rote tasks.
In the second study, N = 651 informants provided perceptions of N = 267 participants. Status was fairly inconsistent across participants’ relationships with different informants. There was some evidence that different personality traits predicted status in different types of relationships: compared to relationships with friends, agreeable and neurotic participants tended to attain status in their romantic relationships, whereas participants low in dominance tended to attain status with their college friends. Together, these results indicate that different personality traits predict status attainment across situations and relationships.
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Andreassi, Cristina Lynne. "Social Cognition as a Mediator in the Relationship between Disability Status and Social Status." NCSU, 2004. http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/theses/available/etd-05282004-141603/.
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This study examined the relationship between social-cognitive ability and social status in children with and without learning disabilities. Social cognitive mapping was used to determine children?s centrality in the social network in their classroom and accuracy in reporting peer social networks. It was predicted that social cognition, as assessed through the accuracy measure, would mediate differences in social status, as assessed through social network centrality. Although children with learning disabilities had lower social network centrality, they did not differ from children without learning disabilities in terms of accuracy in reporting social networks in the classroom. Therefore, the mediation model was not supported. However, greater accuracy in reporting peer networks was predictive of greater peer involvement across both groups of children. Results are discussed in terms of implications for improving children?s social functioning and future research on the topics of the social functioning and social cognition of children with learning disabilities.
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Flowers, Lakeesha A. "The Relationship between Mentoring and Social Status at Work: A Social Network Status Study." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5214.
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Mentoring is an important means of developing talent. Typically, mentoring involves two individuals – a mentor, who provides career development and psychosocial support to a less experienced counterpart (the protege). Because mentoring is related to several desired outcomes such as career advancement, and job satisfaction, it is important to understand which individual characteristics are important to obtaining or providing effective mentoring. It is also necessary to examine potential but unconfirmed outcomes of mentoring such as social network status. This study examined the relationships between several individual characteristics, namely social intelligence and emotional intelligence, and mentoring relationships. In addition, this study examined the relationships between mentoring and social network status. In this non-experimental study, there were several unique relationships among these constructs. The results indicate a person's social intelligence is indicative of their status as a mentor (or not a mentor) but is not related to status as a protege (or not a protege). In addition, a mentor's perception of the costs and benefits of mentoring were explained by the protege's social intelligence and emotional intelligence. A mentor's social intelligence also explained the quality of the mentoring given. Finally, a mentor's social network status was related to the protege's social network status but this relationship was not due to the mentoring received. This study provides one of the first examinations of the relationship between mentoring and social network status and provides areas for future research and practical considerations.ID: 031001464; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Adviser: Kimberly A. Smith Jentsch.; Title from PDF title page (viewed July 8, 2013).; Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 118-129).
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Ordyan, Gevorg. "Social status and economic behavior." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2018. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/119884/1/Gevorg_Ordyan_Thesis.pdf.
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This research investigated how social status impacts economic behavior. First experiment inspired by Range-Frequency Theory tests whether the position between top and bottom members of a comparison group affects social risk-attitudes. The study found no such impact. Second experiment examined the role of internal status hierarchy within small groups during collective risky decisions. Hierarchy does not lead to faster collective decisions as we hypothesise. On the contrary, low-status males resist more during collective decisions. Third experiment investigated the impact of two-dimensional social status on ultimatum bargaining. The study found no evidence of conflict when subjects hold opposite set of statuses on two different hierarchies.
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Wier, Anne Thayer. "Altering socially rejected pre-kindergartners' social status and social behavior : an intervention strategy /." Full text (PDF) from UMI/Dissertation Abstracts International, 2001. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/utexas/fullcit?p3008467.
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Ghaed, Shiva Geneviève. "Subjective social status, socioeconomic status and health following acute coronary syndrome." Diss., Connect to a 24 p. preview or request complete full text in PDF format. Access restricted to UC campuses, 2008. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ucsd/fullcit?p3303504.
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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of California, San Diego and San Diego State University, 2008.Title from first page of PDF file (viewed June 12, 2008). Available via ProQuest Digital Dissertations. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (p. 70-81).
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Lundberg, Johanna. "Social status : a state of mind?" Doctoral thesis, Linköpings universitet, Hälsouniversitetet, 2008. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-15552.
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This thesis is concerned with social stratification of psychosocial factors and social position measurement in population samples collected in mid-Sweden 2000-2006. Traditional resource-based measures of social position (occupation, education) and so far less explored prestige-based measures (subjective status, status incongruence) are tested with respect to their associations with psychosocial factors, emotions, and selfrated health. Three papers in this thesis are based on data from the Life Conditions, Stress, and Health (LSH) study, using a randomly selected population sample. Data for the fourth paper is a regional sample drawn from the health-related survey “Liv och Hälsa 2000”. Statistical methods range from correlation analysis to logistic regression and repeated measures analyses. Results from studies I and IV show that psychosocial factors are unequally distributed within the population in a linear manner, so that the lower the socioeconomic position (SEP), the more unfavourable levels. This is independent of whether we study this in a highly unequal setting such as Russia, or in a more egalitarian society such as Sweden. The stability of psychometric instruments over two years tend to be lower for all instruments among low SEP groups, and differ significantly for self-esteem and perceived control among groups with high and low education, and for cynicism among groups with high and low occupational status. Results from studies II and III point to the relevance of individuals’ own thoughts about themselves, and the potential impact on the self by normative judgements of social position in a certain hierarchical setting. In paper II, the prestige-based measure of subjective status was influenced by resource-based measures, such as self-rated economy and education, but also by life satisfaction and psychosocial factors. The importance of self-evaluation was especially obvious from the study on status incongruence (study III) where the traditionally protective effecs of a high education seem to disappear when combined with a lowstatus occupation. Shaming experiences may play an important role here for our understanding of self-perception.
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Forbes, Angela Jayne. "Personality, social support and health status." Thesis, University of York, 1999. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.298328.
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Rogers, Brian W. Palfrey Thomas R. "Learning and status in social networks /." Diss., Pasadena, Calif. : Caltech, 2006. http://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechETD:etd-05262006-004112.
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Overton, Jon. "Status Contagion: The Spread of Status Value between People." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1530180135926931.
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Waddell, Jasmine M. "Social citizenship and social status in post-apartheid South Africa." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416817.
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Oliveira, Márcia Regina de. "O status social do contador no Brasil." Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, 2015. http://tede.mackenzie.br/jspui/handle/tede/961.
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Previous issue date: 2015-02-02Globalization has demanded professionals who are prepared to operate in competitive markets. In this dynamic environment, in which organizations are constantly revising their business strategies, accounting professionals must also develop new skills that enable them to fulfill their responsibilities adequately. In fact, national and international accounting entities have made efforts to improve and grow the profession in response to emerging needs. The objective of this research is to understand how the professional market is evaluating accounting and accountants in today s business environment. This paper contributes to the study of the accounting profession in Brazil, its focus being the evolution of the profession s prestige. This research was concerned, more specifically, with the institutionalization of the profession in Brazil, the creation of professional associations, the regulation of higher education in Accounting Science, and efforts towards the design and improvement of professional training. The theoretical framework of the study is based on professional sociology. In order to analyze the profession s prestige, weberian theories of class and status, and neo-weberian theories of social class and occupation, were employed. The study is exploratory in nature, as data and information were used to explain the delineation of the profession and to extrapolate the occupational prestige achieved by its professionals. For the study of the profession, the documentary research method was used. The procedure used to assess the status of the profession included semi-structured interviews, which were analyzed through the content analysis method. The results show that the perception of the professional market concerning accountants is strongly impacted by the technical aspects of the profession. However, it was observed that, relative to more active participation by accountants in the decision-making process, perception is lower due to lack of business environment understanding. For its exploratory character, this study was initiated in the professional market and is intended to contribute to the related academic body of work by suggesting ways of achieving professional improvement, which can be used to align training programs, degree programs, and continued education in the field.
A globalização tem demandado profissionais aptos a atuar em mercados competitivos. Neste cenário dinâmico no qual as organizações estão constantemente revendo suas estratégias de negócios, os profissionais da Contabilidade também necessitam desenvolver competências que os habilitem a desempenhar seu papel satisfatoriamente. De fato, organismos nacionais e internacionais vinculados à profissão têm realizado esforços para o aperfeiçoamento da profissão. O objetivo desta pesquisa é verificar como o mercado profissional está avaliando o contador e a Contabilidade no atual ambiente de negócios. A presente pesquisa é uma contribuição ao estudo da profissão do Contador no Brasil, tendo como foco a evolução do prestígio da profissão. Foi realizado um estudo sobre a institucionalização da profissão no Brasil, a criação das entidades de classe, a regulamentação do curso superior em Ciências Contábeis e os esforços para o delineamento e melhoria da formação profissional. A fundamentação teórica se baseia na sociologia das profissões. Para analisar o prestígio da profissão, foram utilizados conceitos das teorias weberianas sobre classe e status e teorias neoweberianas sobre classes sociais e ocupações. O estudo é de natureza exploratória pois foram utilizados dados e informações com o objetivo de explicar o delineamento da profissão e o prestígio ocupacional alcançado pelos profissionais. Para o estudo da profissão, foi utilizado o procedimento de pesquisa documental. O procedimento utilizado para avaliação do status da profissão foi o de entrevistas semiestruturadas, as quais foram analisadas com base no método de análise de conteúdo. Os resultados obtidos evidenciam que a percepção do mercado profissional acerca do contador está fortemente impactada pelos aspectos técnicos da profissão. No entanto, observou-se baixa percepção relativa à atuação mais ativa dos contadores no processo decisório, em virtude de pouco entendimento do negócio e comunicação deficiente. Pelo seu caráter exploratório, iniciou-se no mercado profissional e tem a pretensão de contribuir com a Academia e às Instituições ligadas à profissão, no sentido de sugerir formas de aperfeiçoamento profissional que possam ser utilizadas para alinhar programas de treinamento, formação e educação continuada.
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Hanna, N. "Gender and social status in Chaucer's language." Thesis, University of Liverpool, 2016. http://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/3003702/.
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This thesis examines the semantics and pragmatics of nouns that denote gender and social status in Chaucer’s literature e.g. ‘knyght’, ‘lady’, ‘leche’, ‘wyf’. It argues that a comparative analysis of these words across Chaucer’s corpus may challenge the traditional perceptions of Chaucer’s characters and their social roles, and clarify the supposed ambiguity assigned to these characters in modern criticism. Previous literary analyses of the language have been open to the charge of being unsystematic in their choice of the lexis examined. This thesis addresses this issue by taking a corpus-based approach to identify patterns of language and idiomatic phraseology for discussion, with the aim of discovering if this method can inform new interpretations of Chaucer’s works. With the aid of lexicographical resources (i.e. MED, OED, HTOED), the words are examined with consideration given to their immediate lexical and greater textual contexts, as well as medieval socio-cultural sources that may have informed Chaucer’s use. Although the study takes into consideration Chaucer’s whole body of work, the thesis is structured into three chapters that focus on individual texts of 'The Canterbury Tales', including ‘The Franklin’s Tale’ and ‘The Merchant’s Tale’, the short poem 'An ABC', and finally 'Troilus and Criseyde'. These texts are chosen due to their frequencies and range of the selected social status terms, as well as the fact that they span the entire period of Chaucer’s career, allowing for discussion on how the words develop over the course of his lifetime. The study presents how these terms are utilised for varying literary effect (i.e. simple reflection, critique, comic inversion), and if they confirm or refute previous analyses on Chaucer’s presentations of gender and social roles. In doing so, the thesis offers insights to the historical basis for how these words may have developed in Middle English, and how Chaucer’s language reflects, interprets and challenges fourteenth-century cultural attitudes towards social status.
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Toussaint, Jeffrey Guy. "Adoptive Status, Social Capital, and Academic Achievement." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/27815.
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This dissertation examined the relationships among adoptive status, social capital, and academic achievement. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) had 609 adopted and 11, 940 non-adopted adolescents. I used OLS regression models to help explain why adopted adolescents have significantly lower grade point averages (GPA) than non-adopted adolescents. Potential mediators were family social capital, closeness to family, mother and father, mothers' and fathers' involvement in their children's education, self-esteem, academic expectations, and in-school behavioral difficulties. Only closeness to fathers and in-school behavioral difficulties differed by adoptive status. Compared to non-adopted adolescents, adopted adolescents were closer to their fathers and had more in-school behavioral difficulties. Adopted adolescents also had lower GPA's, even when all other predictors were in the model. However, were it not for greater closeness to their fathers, adopted adolescents' would have had even more in-school behavioral difficulties and consequently, lower academic achievement. The results have implications for social capital theory and theory and research concerning adoptive families.Ph. D.
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Eriksen, Veronika. "Tunagravarnas pärlor : Om genus och social status." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-324921.
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Middleton, Mark Gerald. "Community social status effects on migration outcomes." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10450/10143.
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McWilliams, Susan. "Status and demeanor : overcoming the legitimacy dilemmas of low status actors /." Thesis, Connect to this title online; UW restricted, 1997. http://hdl.handle.net/1773/8911.
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Nilsson, Holmström Rebecka. "Status genom Instagram. : En kvalitativ innehållsanalys av hur social status kommuniceras genom Nellys Instagramkonto." Thesis, Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för medier och journalistik (MJ), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:lnu:diva-86089.
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This research examines what type of lifestyle that is communicated through the Instagram account of the company Nelly. Since previous research show that women are affected by what is shown in the media, I chose to investigate whether or not social status is communicated through Instagram accounts. More specifically, I chose to investigate Nelly's Instagram account as the company is the leader for young women in the fashion and beauty industry in Sweden. The research is a qualitative content analysis made with a semiotic approach and 16 pictures were analyzed to find symbols of social status. The result shows that social status is communicated through Nelly's Instagram account. The company not only shows their products on their Instagram account, but also symbols that indicate that you should have a feminine and luxurious lifestyle.
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Pinchbeck, Carla. "Leadership and social status amongst school aged children /." Title page, table of contents and abstract only, 2004. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09SSPS/09sspsp6472.pdf.
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Böhringer, Martin, Alrik Degenkolb, and Andreas Schneider. "Social Feed Reader: Status Quo and Future Perspectives." Saechsische Landesbibliothek- Staats- und Universitaetsbibliothek Dresden, 2014. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:14-qucosa-141445.
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Sheehy, Paul Andrew Patrick. "The ontological and moral status of social groups." Thesis, King's College London (University of London), 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.271170.
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Dytham, Siobhan. "Relational popularity and social status in secondary school." Thesis, University of Warwick, 2015. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/81028/.
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This research is based on a study of the relationships and interactional processes which construct and maintain ‘popularity’ in secondary school. The study adopts an ethnographic approach, including group discussions, observations, and visual methods, in a secondary school in central England. The core argument is that ‘popularity’ is socially constructed within relationships, and this thesis develops a notion of ‘relational popularity’. In doing so, this study addresses three questions. Firstly, given the postmodern abandonment of the fixed self and critiques of the individualist focus of research, how can ‘popularity’ be understood from the framework of ‘relational beings’, and what impact does this have on the idea of ‘popularity’? Secondly, what micro-level ‘popularity’ work do students engage in to both construct and position themselves and others as ‘popular’? Finally, how does this conception of ‘popularity’ alter understandings of what the day-to-day experiences of ‘popularity’ in secondary school may be like? These questions are addressed through the analysis of rich interactional data produced through group discussions with year 9 students (aged 13-14). After discussing an analysis of popular and unpopular social groups, meanings and usages of ‘popularity’, the dominance of ‘the popular girls’, and in-group control and dominance processes, the notion of ‘relational popularity’ is seen to open avenues for more nuanced understandings of ‘popularity’. As such, the thesis argues for the need for more micro analyses of interaction in relation to ‘popularity’ in schools, to support key research which writes about the role of societal discourses in ‘popularity’. The thesis concludes that ‘popularity’ is not the achievement of popular individuals, but a collective achievement through ‘relational being’. Since ‘popularity’ is not something that anyone can achieve alone, this thesis argues that ‘popularity’ is not something that you are, or something that you do, ‘popularity’ is something that relationships do. The thesis demonstrates that within the schooling context multiple understandings of ‘popularity’ exist, and claims to ‘popularity’ are continually challenged and contested, which can alter understandings of ‘popular’ students and allow a consideration of areas of difficulty and vulnerability for students considered ‘popular’ (and ‘unpopular’). The conclusion draws together the theoretical, methodological and practical significance of this more nuanced understanding of popularity for further research and practice.
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Böhringer, Martin, Alrik Degenkolb, and Andreas Schneider. "Social Feed Reader: Status Quo and Future Perspectives." Technische Universität Dresden, 2009. https://tud.qucosa.de/id/qucosa%3A27961.
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Дейнека, М. Ю., Тетяна Володимирівна Пімоненко, Татьяна Владимировна Пимоненко, Tetiana Volodymyrivna Pimonenko, Олексій Валентинович Люльов, Алексей Валентинович Люлев, and Oleksii Valentynovych Liulov. "HR management considering race, gender, and social status." Thesis, Сумський державний університет, 2020. https://essuir.sumdu.edu.ua/handle/123456789/85792.
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More and more companies are now expanding their operations internationally. It means that they aim to be successful on a global scale and that intercultural relations are being created. At the same time, discrimination is increasing in both national and international companies. The authors in the paper [1, 4] proved that cross-cultural should be considered during the developing od country’s brand. Besides, the authors in the papers [2, 10-12] proved that the gender and culture of the staff should be analyzed under the developing of the company’s strategy considering the Sustainable Development Goals.
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Tancock, Susan M. "At-risk students : the social construction of status /." The Ohio State University, 1991. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1487757723997587.
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Loretto, Kira. "Sibling status and social preferences an experimental study /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3629.
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Shariatzadeh, Ebrahim. "The social construction of product innovation : the role of status and social capital." Thesis, University of Surrey, 2015. http://epubs.surrey.ac.uk/807442/.
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This Research investigates the origins of innovation from a social perspective. It identifies status and social capital as two constructs that could elucidate the social construction of innovation. Drawing on the expectation states theory, signalling mechanism of status, three dimensional conceptualisation of social capital, and the network model of innovation, this thesis develops theoretical frameworks,in which the effect of status on innovation is theorised through the mediating role of social capital dimensions. Following a social network analysis research design, the proposed models are tested in an empirical study. Relational data is collected from 121 individuals, and analysed through mediation analysis in PROCESS macro. The results show strong evidence that three dimensions of social capital both independently and collectively mediate the effect of status on innovation. The findings illustrate how and to what extent different perceptions regarding the social rankings of the actors could end up influencing their innovative contribution, through affecting their social network, and thereby regulating the access to the socially available resources. The outcomes contribute to the literature by advancing the understanding regarding its social origins of innovation. The empirical evidence indicate that the social antecedents of innovation are not limited to the social interactions, but they have much deeper roots into individuals’ social attributes, namely perceived status. Moreover, the mediating role of social capital dimensions offers an explanation on how perceived status of individuals could influence their contribution to product innovation.
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Gaubert, Cécile. "Rôles des jugements de compétence et d'assertivité dans la justification de la hièrarchie sociale." Thesis, Strasbourg, 2019. http://www.theses.fr/2019STRAG033.
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Cette thèse interroge notre façon de percevoir et de justifier les différences de statut dans la société. La littérature montre que le jugement social repose sur deux dimensions fondamentales, une dimension horizontale, qui fait référence aux qualités permettant d’entretenir de bonnes relations sociales, et une dimension verticale, qui fait référence aux qualités permettant d’atteindre ses objectifs. Cette dimension verticale, liée au statut, est composée de deux facettes : l’assertivité, i.e. la motivation à réussir et à se développer et la compétence, i.e. les ressources pour réaliser ses objectifs. Notre objectif était de mettre en évidence que seule la compétence permet de justifier la hiérarchie sociale. Nous avons réalisé huit études, qui ont confirmé notre hypothèse. Ainsi, plus les personnes justifient les inégalités, plus elles attribuent de compétence aux personnes ayant un statut élevé dans la société (i.e. riches, les personnes de pouvoir). Par ailleurs la relation entre l’assertivité et le statut n’a pas été modérée par la justification du système, suggérant que l’assertivité ne permet pas de justifier des différences de statutThis thesis questions the perception and justification of status differences in society. The literature shows that social judgment is based on two fundamental dimensions : a horizontal dimension, which refers to qualities that enable good social relations to be maintained, and a vertical dimension, which refers to qualities that enable objectives to be achieved. This vertical dimension, linked to status, is composed of two facets: assertiveness, i.e. the motivation to succeed and develop, and competence, i.e. the resources to achieve one's objectives. Our objective was to highlight that only competence can justify social hierarchy. We conducted eight studies, which confirmed our hypothesis. Thus, the more people justify inequalities, the more they attribute competence to people with a high status in society (i.e. rich, powerful people). Moreover, the relationship between assertiveness and status has not been moderated by the justification of the system, suggesting that assertiveness does not justify status differences
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Smith, Trevor K. "Relationships Between Political Competition and Socioeconomic Status in the United States." Walden University, 2013.
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Kenyon, Gail L. "Gender, income and managerial status among graduate social workers." Waterloo, Ontario : Wilfrid Laurier University, 2000. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/wlu/fullcit?pnq60793.
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Kenyon, Gail L. "Gender, income and managerial status among graduate social workers." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2001. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk3/ftp04/NQ60793.pdf.
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Fälth, Sebastian. "Social Class and Status in Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby." Thesis, Högskolan i Halmstad, Sektionen för lärarutbildning (LUT), 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:hh:diva-24020.
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Uppsatsen syftar till att analysera påverkan av social klass och status i F. Scott Fitzgeralds roman The Great Gatsby med Max Webers teori om klass och status som utgångspunkt. Detta sker genom analys av karaktärernas relationer och beteende ur ett perspektiv där klass och status är centralt. Resultatet visar hur klass och status påverkar karaktärernas beslut, relationer och liv. Det leder till ett oundvikligt slut för Jay Gatsbys och Daisy Buchanans kärleksaffär samtidigt som konsekvenserna av karaktärernas handlingar påverkas av deras klasstillhörighet.
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Narayanan, Jayanth. "Relative status and social outcomes : Effects on interpersonal interactions." Thesis, London Business School (University of London), 2007. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.500127.
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Koski, Jessica Elizabeth. "The Neural Representations of Social Status: An MVPA Study." Diss., Temple University Libraries, 2015. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/339639.
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Status is a salient social cue, to the extent that it shapes our attention, judgment, and memory for other people, and it guides our social interactions. While prior work has addressed the traits associated with status, as well as its effects on cognition and behavior, research on the neural mechanisms of status perception is still relatively sparse and predominantly focused on neural activity during explicit status judgments. Further, there is no research looking at the involvement of person-processing networks in status perception, or how we embed status information in our representations of others. In the present study I asked whether person-specific representations in ventral face-processing regions (occipital face area (OFA), fusiform face area (FFA)) as well as more anterior regions (anterior temporal lobe (ATL) and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC)) contain information about a person’s status, and whether regions involved in affective processing and reward (amygdala, ventral striatum) decode status information as well. Participants learned to associate names, career titles, and reputational status information (high versus low ratings) with objects and faces over a two-day training regimen. Object status served as a nonsocial comparison. Trained stimuli were presented in an fMRI experiment, where participants performed a target detection task unrelated to status. MVPA revealed that face and object sensitive regions in the ATLs and lateral OFC decoded face and object status, respectively. These data suggest that regions sensitive to abstract person knowledge and valuation interact during the perception of social status, potentially contributing to the effects of status on social perception.
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Reidinger, Bobbi. "Weight as Status: An Expansion of Status Characteristics Theory." Kent State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1586629807299555.
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Hsu, Lorena. "Social norms, social self-efficacy and perceived social status in the expression of social anxiety : a cross-national comparison." Thesis, University of British Columbia, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/21931.
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Previous research has consistently shown that Asian-heritage individuals report higher levels of social anxiety compared to their European-heritage counterparts. The goal of this study was to examine whether culturally-influenced social standards, social self-efficacy, and perceived social status account for elevated reports of social anxiety in East Asian-heritage (EAH) individuals. Drawing from cognitive and evolutionary models of social anxiety, two competing hypotheses that encompassed these social contextual variables were tested to explain ethnic differences in social anxiety: the Asian socialization hypothesis proposed that higher self-reported social anxiety in EAH individuals are related to their greater exposure to East Asian cultural values, while the cultural discrepancy hypothesis posited that Asian-Western differences in social anxiety are associated with the bicultural experience of cultural and/or ethnic discrepancy with mainstream Western culture.
In a cross-national sample of East Asian- and European-heritage students living in Canada (Ns = 280 and 103, respectively) and East Asian students living in Korea and China (N = 309), participants completed self-report questionnaires that measured social anxiety, depression, and social contextual factors (i.e., cultural norms, social self-efficacy, and perceived social status). Measures of acculturation and self-construal were also included to confirm that the groups differed on cultural values. Planned contrast analyses demonstrated relatively strong support for the cultural discrepancy hypothesis, in which bicultural East Asian groups (i.e., 1st- and 2nd-generation EAH individuals) reported greater social anxiety and depression, as well as lower initiation social self-efficacy and perceived social status compared to members of unicultural groups (i.e., European-heritage and overseas East Asian groups). However, social self-efficacy and perceived social status did not appear to mediate the elevated social anxiety levels in bicultural East Asians. Findings showed limited support for the Asian socialization hypothesis.
Overall, the results suggest that higher reports of social anxiety in bicultural East Asians may be associated with the experience of cultural and ethnic discrepancy with Western mainstream culture, and conceptualized as a part of the experience of acculturative and/or bicultural stress. Findings from this study suggest that the role of cultural discrepancy in elevated social anxiety warrants further investigation using longitudinal or experimental designs.
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Duque, Marina Guedes. "Status in International Politics." The Ohio State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1471261409.
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Nordberg, Susanne. "Perspektiv på barnskötarens status i förskolan." Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för lärande och samhälle (LS), 2017. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-27256.
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I den här studien har jag undersökt talet om yrkesgruppen barnskötare i två lärartidningar. Jag har sökt på ’barnskötare’ och läst artiklar från perioden 2010-2017. Varje aktör i de olika utsagorna från artiklarna vill hävda sin föreställning inom talet om barnskötare, en föreställning som återspeglar deras förhållningssätt till barnskötarens närvaro inom förskolans verksamheter. I diskursanalysen kunde två diskurser särskiljas. Diskursen om den oprioriterade barnskötaren, och diskursen om den efterfrågade barnskötaren. Inom dessa diskurser identifierades flera synpunkter och perspektiv som i sig bidrar till att bilda diskurserna som helhet. Dessa perspektiv framhävs genom användning av tecken och språkliga uttalanden. De synpunkter och konflikter som utgör den oprioriterade barnskötaren hävdar att barnskötare saknar kompetens för att kunna anses vara lika kompetent som en utbildad förskollärare. I diskursen om den efterfrågade barnskötaren anses barnskötaren vara en kompetent yrkesgrupp, om än inte med samma färdigheter som förskolelärare. Diskursen föreslår idén om att barnskötarens färdigheter är bra, men den extra utbildningsinsatsen krävs för att kunna göra anspråk på yrkeskunnande.In this study I examine the talk of the nursery pre-school profession in two teacher magazines with articles dating from 2010 to 2017. Each actor in the various statements from the articles wants to claim their idea of what good childcare is and if the nursery pre-school profession is competent enough. In the discourse analysis two dominating discourses was distinguished. The discourse of the neglected pre-school child nurse, and the discourse of the requested pre-school child nurse. Within these discourses, several views and perspectives was identified which in itself contributes to form the discourses as a whole. These perspectives is argued through the use of signs and linguistic statements. The views and conflicts forming the discourse of the neglected pre-school child nurse argues that the pre-school child nurse lacks the competence to be as capable as an educated pre-school teacher. In the discourse of the requested pre-school child nurse, the idea is that pre-school child nurses are a competent professional group, albeit not with the same skills as a pre-school teacher. The discourse suggests the idea that the nurses skills are good, but that extra educational effort is required in order to claim professional proficiency.
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Stymne, William. "Mobbning bland skolungdomar : En litteraturstudie om social status och grupptillhörighet." Thesis, Ersta Sköndal Bräcke högskola, Institutionen för socialvetenskap, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:esh:diva-7350.
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Syftet med denna uppsats är att förklara hur kamratgrupperingar och sociala hierarkier utgör en väsentlig del av samt leder till mobbning bland skolungdomar. Detta har genomförts med kvalitativ meta-analys av forskningsartiklar, som har tolkats utifrån sociologiska teorier om stigmatisering och miniatyrsamhälleliga gruppers maktförhållanden. Resultatet har framställts genom en grounded theory ansats och analyserats utifrån meta-analytisk metod samt diskursanalytisk ontologi. Resultatet och analysen indikerar att kamratgrupperingar och hierarkier utgör skeden av komplexa händelseförlopp, från skolklassers sammansättningar fram till att mobbning utbryter. Konklusionerna av detta är att det behövs vidare fördjupningar av olika orsakssamband i framtida forskning. Sambanden behöver även uppmärksammas för att motverka hierarkiska skiljelinjer mellan kamratgrupper när man förebygger och avstyr mobbning.The purpose of this essay is to explain how peer groups and social hierarchies are an essential part of, and generate bullying among school adolescents. This has been conducted through qualitative meta-analysis of research articles, which have been interpreted through sociological theories on stigmatization and power relationships between minor social groups. The results are presented through a grounded theory approach and analyzed by meta-analytic methods and discourse analytic ontology. The analysis indicates that peer groups and social hierarchies are stages of complex social processes, between the formations of school classes up until bullying breaks out. The essay concludes that further research of each causal relationship is needed in future research. The causalities also need to be considered when preventing social hierarchies and intervening in school bullying situations.
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Guttenberger, Ortwein Gudrun. "Status und Statusverzicht im Neuen Testament und seiner Umwelt /." Freiburg (Schweiz) : Göttingen : Universitätsverl. ; Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999. http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37086349m.
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Lucas, Robyn Marjorie. "Socioeconomic status and health : exploring biological pathways /." View thesis entry in Australian Digital Theses, 2003. http://thesis.anu.edu.au/public/adt-ANU20060426.095241/index.html.
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Arruda, Ademir Felipe Schultz de. "O efeito do nível de dificuldade do adversário nas respostas hormonais e comportamentais, no desempenho técnico e no desempenho percebido de jovens jogadores de basquetebol." Universidade de São Paulo, 2018. http://www.teses.usp.br/teses/disponiveis/39/39135/tde-05112018-095823/.
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O objetivo da presente tese foi investigar o efeito do nível de dificuldade do adversário nas respostas hormonais, comportamentais e de desempenho de jovens jogadores de basquetebol. Para tanto, 29 atletas de basquetebol do sexo masculino, das categorias sub-15, sub-16 e sub-17 de um mesmo clube (15,3 ± 1,1 anos; 85,5 ± 15,0 kg; 189,0 ± 7,9 cm) foram avaliados na primeira fase do Campeonato Paulista em três partidas com diferentes níveis de dificuldade do adversário (Difícil, Médio e Fácil) para cada uma das três categorias, somando um total de nove partidas. As concentrações salivares de cortisol (C) e testosterona (T) pré e pós-partida, a ansiedade pré-competitiva, o desempenho técnico através do número de envolvimentos técnico-táticos com bola de cada jogador, a percepção subjetiva de esforço da sessão (PSE da sessão) e o desempenho percebido, foram consideradas em cada partida. A comparação de T e C, e o desempenho técnico foi realizada com uma análise de modelos mistos de um (nível de dificuldade) ou dois fatores (nível de dificuldade e momento), com medidas repetidas. Por sua vez, a comparação das variáveis ansiedade pré-competitiva, PSE da sessão e desempenho percebido foi realizada pelo teste de Friedman, seguido do teste de Wilcoxon, quando necessário. Em ambas as análises foi utilizado o post hoc de Bonferroni. Além disso, a associação entre as repostas normalizadas pelo score Z da variação de T com o desempenho percebido e técnico foi verificada por meio da correlação de Pearson. Em todas as análises foi adotado o nível de significância de 5%. Foi verificado aumento de T do pré para o pós nas partidas contra adversários de nível de dificuldade Fácil (p = 0,0064) e Médio (p = 0,0375). A C pós-partida foi superior aos valores pré (p < 0,0001), independentemente do nível de dificuldade; e C no nível Fácil foi inferior ao nível Médio (p = 0,0351) e Difícil (p = 0,0035). A ansiedade cognitiva foi maior no nível Difícil em relação ao nível Fácil (p < 0.01). A ansiedade somática, por sua vez, foi maior no nível Difícil em relação aos níveis Fácil (p<0,001) e Médio (p = 0,01), e maior no nível Médio em relação ao nível Fácil (p = 0,004). A PSE da sessão foi maior no nível Difícil em relação aos níveis Fácil (p = 0,003) e Médio (p = 0,003). Não foi observado efeito do nível de dificuldade para autoconfiança (p = 0,118), desempenho técnico (p = 0,728) e desempenho percebido (p = 0,113). Além disso, não foi verificada correlação significante entre as variáveis desempenho técnico e percebido com a variação da concentração de T (r < 0,35 e p > 0,07 para todas as comparações). Os resultados da presente tese indicam que quanto maior o nível de dificuldade do adversário maior a ansiedade pré-competitiva e a PSE da sessão. A concentração de C aumentou independente do nível do adversário. Já a T aumentou nos jogos de menor dificuldade, mas não no jogo Difícil. Esse aumento da T não se correlacionou significativamente com o desempenho técnico ou percebido. Não houve influência do nível do adversário no desempenho técnico ou percebidoThe aim of this thesis was to investigate the effect of the adversary difficulty level on hormonal and behavioral responses, technical performance and perceived performance in young basketball players. Thereunto, 29 male young basketball players, from under-15, under-16 and under-17 categories from the same club (15.3 ± 1.1 years, 85.5 ± 15.0 kg, 189.0 ± 7.9 cm) were evaluated in the first phase of the Paulista Championship in three matches with different opponent difficulty levels (Hard, Medium and Easy) for each of the three categories, totaling nine matches. Salivary concentrations of cortisol (C) and testosterone (T) pre and post-match, pre-competitive anxiety, technical performance through individual technical-tactical ball involvements, session rating of perceived exertion (session-RPE) and perceived performance were considered in each match. The comparisons of T and C, and technical performance were performed with a mixed model analysis with one (difficulty level) or two factors (difficulty level and moment), with repeated measures. On the other hand, the comparisons of pre-competitive anxiety, session-RPE and perceived performance were performed by the Friedman test, followed by the Wilcoxon test, when it was necessary. In both analyses, Bonferroni post hoc was used. Moreover, the association between the responses normalized by the Z score of T variation with the perceived and technical performance was verified through the Pearson correlation. A significance level of 5% was adopted for all analyzes. It was verified an increase in T from pre- to post-match against Easy (p = 0,0064) and Medium (p = 0,0375) opponent levels. C level increased from pre- to post-match, regardless of the difficulty level; and C in the Easy level was lower than the Medium (p = 0.0351) and Hard (p = 0.0035) difficulty levels. Cognitive anxiety was higher in the Hard level compared to the Easy one (p <0.01). Somatic anxiety, on the other hand, was higher in the Hard level compared to the Easy (p <0.001) and Medium (p = 0.01) levels and was higher in the Medium level compared to the Easy one (p = 0.004). Session-RPE was higher in the Hard level compared to the Easy (p = 0.003) and Medium (p = 0.003) levels. No effect of difficulty level for self-confidence (p = 0.118), technical performance (p = 0.728) and perceived performance (p = 0.113) was observed. In addition, no significant correlation was observed between the technical and perceived performance with T variation (r <0.35 and p> 0.07 for all comparisons). The results of this thesis indicate that the higher the opponent difficulty level, the greater the pre-competitive anxiety and the session-RPE. C increased independently of the opponent level. T increased in less difficult matches, but not in the Hard one. This increase in T did not correlate significantly with the technical or perceived performance. There was no influence of the opponent\'s level on technical or perceived performance
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Vieites, Yan. "The Prosocial class: how social class influences prosocial behavior." reponame:Repositório Institucional do FGV, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10438/18664.
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The concept of noblesse oblige establishes that the differential in privileges between the rich and the poor should be balanced by a differential in duties towards those in need. However, the empirical findings regarding which are the most prosocial groups havebeenascontroversialasthisassertive. Whereasresearchintheso-calledpsychological framework has advocated a negative relationship between social class and prosocial behavior, the economic approach has claimed the opposite (i.e., positive) direction to be true. This article sought to disentangle conflicting findings from these strands of research across two different studies. In the first study, we conducted a series of focus groups in both wealthy and impoverished areas. Results suggested that research in the domain of social class has been circumscribed to an almost conventionalized few prosocial behaviors that are not representative neither of wealthy nor of poor individuals. In the second study, we conducted surveys in the same areas. Results revealed that, despite having less resources and opportunities to help others, lower social class individuals are more prosocial than their upper-class counterparts. Furthermore, prosociality differences cannot be explained by a different pattern of targets of help across the social spectrum. Implications for practice and research on prosociality are also discussed.
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Phillips, Daniel W. "Mental illness, social status and health care utilization : a test of societal reaction theory /." Diss., This resource online, 1996. http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06062008-154419/.
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Chan, Wai, and 陳衛. "Social indicators for health in Hong Kong." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1989. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31975689.
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Samuelsson, Mikael. "Status i grupphierarkin : om barns sociala interaktioner." Thesis, Umeå universitet, Institutionen för tillämpad utbildningsvetenskap, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-85432.
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In this study the author attempts to identify factors that are determinants for why some pupils in Swedish grade school have high status in comparison with their peers. The study takes on the characteristics of both an ethnographic and a literature study by comparing the findings of interviews carried out with students of a first grade class with previous research. The study identify several tools for analyzing of how status may be understood in specific situations.The study also finds that important factors for gaining high status amongst children in aschool classes might be the ability to apply access strategies to get accepted in social interactions, such as game play, have the ability to create games that are enjoyed by peers and social skills, to name a few. Overall the study shows that children's game play with each otherare crucial for their social interactions and their social position. The study also show that children that have earlier established relationships with other children in a specific group alsohave a better opportunity to establish a high status position.
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Thompson, Mindi N. "Relations of Supports and Barriers to Social Status and Vocational Behavior." University of Akron / OhioLINK, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=akron1216228928.
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von, Essen Emma. "Understanding unequal outcomes : Studies on gender, social status and foreignness." Doctoral thesis, Stockholms universitet, Nationalekonomiska institutionen, 2013. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-88180.
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In economics there are two main domains of explanation for understanding unequal outcomes. The first considers differences in individual preferences, while the second concerns differences in how individuals are treated. Part I of the thesis comprises four articles pertaining to the first explanation. The main focus of these articles is gender differences in preference. The behaviors studied therein are risk preferences, competitiveness, altruism and cooperativeness. The first study finds no gender differences in performance under a competitive setting, across tasks with varying gender stereotyping. In the second study we find the gender gap in choosing to compete to be present only in the mathematical and not the verbal domain among adolescents. Moreover, its presence can largely be accounted for by other factors, such as performance beliefs. The third and fourth study compares children in Colombia and Sweden. In this sample there are no gender differences in Colombia, but in Sweden boys choose to compete more than girls. In risk-aversion however we find the gender gap to be larger in Colombia. Girls compared to boys also seem to be less cooperative in Colombia, whereas we find the opposite in Sweden. Part II comprises two articles relating to how individuals are treated by others. The first article explores how social status influences third party punishment. Punishment decisions made by male third parties in response to a norm violation are in this study found to be affected by both the social status and the gender of the judged individual. The second article investigates how transient anonymity interacts with discrimination in online markets. The results show buyer discrimination in the feedback system against male sellers with foreign-sounding names. This discrimination only occurs when sellers are anonymous; that is, if they chose not to reveal their name in their username.
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Law, Man-shing, and 羅萬成. "Social status and friendship patterns among students with learning difficulties." Thesis, The University of Hong Kong (Pokfulam, Hong Kong), 1995. http://hub.hku.hk/bib/B31957973.
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