The Origins of Status Hierarchies: A Formal Theory and Empirical Test1

By Roger V. Gould. American Journal of Sociology, 2002

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Staging Exchange Partner Choices: When Do Status and Reputation Matter? (2008, neutral): “and reputation, defined respectively by the prestige accorded actors because of their social positions and the prestige accorded them because of their prior performance (Gould, 2002; Wilson, 1985), help simplify partner choice.”
Ties That Last (2013, background): “Academics therefore face a trade-off between attaching themselves to those perceived as desirable partners and attaching themselves to those who are available (Gould, 2002).”
Patterns and dynamics of users' behavior and interaction: Network analysis of an online community (2009, background): “Users value reciprocation and show a tendency to strengthen their relationships with those from whom they receive attention (Gould, 2002; Gouldner, 1960).”
Structure and time evolution of an Internet dating community (2002, background): “Messages between agents with different social status for example, tend to be unevenly distributed (Gould 2002).”
Gender Inequality in Product Markets: When and How Status Beliefs Transfer to Products (2017, background): “Sociologists have shown that status beliefs powerfully in ﬂ uence judgments under conditions of uncertainty (Gould 2002; Podolny 1993; Salganik, Dodds, and Watts 2006).”
8 Social Hierarchy: The Self‐Reinforcing Nature of Power and Status (2008, neutral): “1977 ; Berger & Zelditch 1985 ; Blau, 1964 ; Ridgeway, 1991 ; Ridgeway et al, 1998 ), from a stereotype (eg, Cuddy, Fiske, & Glick, 2008 ), or from reputation (Anderson & Shirako, 2008 ; Gould, 2002 ).”
Language Matters: Status Loss and Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations (2013, background): “…the impact of changes in relative standing for executives in recently acquired firms, but much of the theoretical and empirical literature has favored explanations of status creation, elevation, and durability (see, e.g., Gould 2002, Correll and Ridgeway 2003, Berger and Fişek 2006, Berdahl 2007).”
Repatriating knowledge: variables influencing the “transfer” process (2009, background): “In general, social science has found that organizations reveal their trust by conferring more power on some individuals because they have devoted more time and energy to helping the organization accomplish its goals (Gould, 2002).”
Strategic networks and entrepreneurial ventures (2007, background): “…that actors either follow a simple behavioral rule, such as favoring connections to the most central actors (e.g., Barabasi and Albert, 1999; Gould, 2002), or that they maximize a utility function that does not map easily onto the social mechanisms featured in the entrepreneurship…”
Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for Inequality: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Developments (2006, background): “Sociologists, social psychologists, and economists invoke CA processes with concepts of reputational e¤ects (Gould 2002), positional goods (Hirsch 1976), halo e¤ects (Greenwald and Banaji 1995), the scarring e¤ects of unemployment (Ellwood 1982), and cumulative discrimination (Blank, Dabady, and Cit”
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange (2014, background): “10 In the status tradition, an economic actor’s status is not only revealed, but arguably constituted , by the patterns of deference and association in which an actor is enmeshed (Gould 2002; Martin 2009; Podolny 2001, 2005).”
A functional model of hierarchy (2011, background): “…with respect to a valued social dimension’’ (Magee & Galinsky, 2008, p. 354), is one of the most elementary and common forms of social organizations in primate groups, both human and nonhuman (A. P. Fiske, 1992; S. T. Fiske, 2010; Gould, 2002; Gruenfeld & Tiedens, 2010; Magee & Galinsky, 2008).”
When Hierarchy Wins (2012, background): “Indeed, differential access to valued resources is a near-universal phenomenon in groups and organizations (Gould, 2002; Gruenfeld & Tiedens, 2010).”
Social Discrimination in the Corporate Elite (2013, background): “Individuals who occupy high-status positions in a social hierarchy are perceived to enjoy a collection of rights and privileges (Linton, 1936: 113; Gould, 2002; Jensen, Kim, and Kim, 2011) that makes them the potential object of envy by lower-status actors.”