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Achieved status
About: Achieved status is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 65 publications have been published within this topic receiving 3524 citations.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors concluded that increasing participation in an achievement as opposed to an ascribed status system is a necessary precondition for increasing rates of specified forms of deviance.
Abstract: Unlike murder rates, those for suicide are increasing. This trend is historically related to increasing literacy, urbanization, and a larger middle class. Higher status and moral commitment for these persons preclude murder; suicide emerges as a manifestation of increasing numbers of persons in an insecure achieved status. Whether trends, rural-urban areas, or characteristics of individual cases are compared, there is basis for concluding that increasing participation in an achievement as opposed to an ascribed status system is a necessary precondition for increasing rates of specified forms of deviance. The relationships, however, depend on the proportion of persons in the various status positions of the population and the stresses and strains that are subjectively experienced. Conceptually, it appears that stresses of a status position induce varying orientations to society (subcultural norms as intervening variables) which in turn facilitate or inhibit certain types of deviance. Differential rates of homicide and suicide are the direct effects of variations in these normative orientations. disputes where assailant or victim own land 35 and neither own 13 per cent vs. 12 and 14 per cent (N=84, 38 vs. 51, 21, combining "own" and "neither own" for Kandyan and Ceylon Tamil, x2=l3.12, 2 d.f., P<.05).
813 citations
TL;DR: Men experience more anxiety over their gender status than women do, particularly when gender status is uncertain or challenged as discussed by the authors, which can motivate a variety of risky and maladaptive behaviors, as well as the avoidance of behaviors that might otherwise prove adaptive and beneficial.
Abstract: This article reviews evidence that manhood is seen as a precarious social status that is both difficult to achieve and tenuously held. Compared with womanhood, which is typically viewed as resulting from a natural, permanent, and biological developmental transition, manhood must be earned and maintained through publicly verifiable actions. Because of this, men experience more anxiety over their gender status than women do, particularly when gender status is uncertain or challenged. This can motivate a variety of risky and maladaptive behaviors, as well as the avoidance of behaviors that might otherwise prove adaptive and beneficial. We review research on the implications of men’s precarious gender status across the domains of risk-taking, aggression, stress and mental health, and work‐life balance. We further consider how work on precarious manhood differs from, and can add to, work on individual differences in men’s gender role conflict. In summary, the precarious manhood hypothesis can integrate and explain a wide range of male behaviors and phenomena related to the male gender role.
749 citations
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11 Mar 1990TL;DR: In a cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, this article found that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness -on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality -is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness of men who otherwise have little in common.
Abstract: In this cross-cultural study of manhood as an achieved status, the author finds that a culturally sanctioned stress on manliness - on toughness and aggressiveness, stoicism and sexuality - is almost universal, and deeply ingrained in the consciousness of men who otherwise have little in common.
743 citations
TL;DR: In this article, the relevance of social capital to management development in the workplace and the importance of gender in the formation of Social capital and the distribution of its benefits has been explored, and it is argued that women are hindered in their efforts to achieve career advancement and its associated benefits due to their inability t...
Abstract: Purpose – Social capital has been widely accepted as an important asset for creating and maintaining healthy communities, robust organizations and vibrant civil societies. This paper explores the relevance of social capital to management development in the workplace and, more specifically, the importance of gender in the formation of social capital and the distribution of its benefits. Design/methodology/approach – The pertinent scholarly literature is reviewed to explore the role of social capital in organizational behavior and its relationship to gender.Findings – Although the numbers of women entering the workplace have risen steadily in the last half century and strides have been made in attaining economic parity with men, statistics reveal that women continue to lag behind men in career advancement and in levels of compensation and achieved status. It is argued in the literature that women are hindered in their efforts to achieve career advancement and its associated benefits due to their inability t...
220 citations
TL;DR: In a study of family instability, a sample of 150 individuals were interviewed who were recently involved in a divorce action, and the incidence of reported intra-family violence was fifteen percent as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: In order to conduct a study of family instability, a sample of 150 individuals were interviewed who were recently involved in a divorce action. The incidence of reported intrafamily violence was fifteen percent. The violent behavior was primarily delivered by husbands who were characteristically underachievers in the work/earner role and who were deficient in certain status characteristics relative to their wives. This was interpreted .as a special form of status inconsistency, whereby the superior ascribed status category of person (husband-male) was deficient in achieved status characteristics. This was taken as evidence that violence in the family may have an etiology similar to that in the larger society, with violent behavior most often involving the use of coercive force by members of a superordinate status at times when they find their stature threatened.
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| 2017 | 2 |
| 2016 | 2 |
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