Consequences of rewards : the creation, perpetuation, and erosion of social inequality
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation focuses on how status and rewards jointly impact the creation, perpetuation and erosion of social inequality. Rewards are objects or positions that come to have differential levels of prestige when they are affiliated with groups of varying status, such as certain types of educational degrees, technologies, awards, and the like. Expectations about who we are and what we should be able to achieve are formed based on a combination of both our characteristics and displayed status markers. The first study experimentally tests whether rewards have the power to create entirely new status characteristics and bases of inequality. The second study is an examination of how assessments of competence and trustworthiness systematically bias the distribution of rewards and, thereby, the perpetuation of inequality, by examining how lenders perceive loan applicants and make funding decisions in experimentally created lending markets. The third study explores whether rewards have the power to neutralize status-based inequality when low status individuals are rewarded with markers of a much higher honorific value than members of high status groups.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Harkness, Sarah Katherine |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Sociology. |
| Primary advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Thesis advisor | Cook, Karen |
| Thesis advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Thesis advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
| Advisor | Correll, Shelley Joyce |
| Advisor | Ridgeway, Cecilia L |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sarah Katherine Harkness. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Sociology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Sarah Katherine Harkness
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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