Unequals: The Power of Status and Expectations in our Social Lives

Murray Webster, Jr. · Lisa Slattery Walker

Oct 2022 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Courtney Patterson and Timothy Howard Jackson

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This book presents the latest research on status generalization in a variety of settings, examining new interventions for its negative effects. Drawing from research on status processes in sociology, social psychology, education, organizations, mental health, and other fields, the book connects to several bodies of research that include stigma and stereotyping, exchange and power, and organizations. The first part of the book establishes the foundations and recent developments. Next, the book delves into elaborations, variants, and interrelations. Throughout, the book illustrates how status processes are evident in settings like school classrooms and others, where interventions can improve interaction and participation between advantaged and disadvantaged students, genders, organizational positions, races, other dynamics that may be impacted by social status and expectation. The book concludes with chapters on applications and interventions to reduce unwanted inequalities in social interactions and institutions. With its balanced, multidisciplinary approach to the challenges of social hierarchies and deep-rooted expectations, Unequals is an essential volume for all academic and scholarly listeners interested in status processes and inequalities in our social lives.

About the author

Courtney Patterson is an Atlanta native who has been working as an actor on stage, screen, and behind the microphone for close to two decades. She has been narrating audiobooks since 2011 and has fallen in love with the craft of storytelling through narration.

Timothy Howard Jackson possesses a rich, robust, rugged voice that lends credibility and interest to all types of materials. Recording sci-fi, mysteries, thrillers, and edgy nonfiction under his name and romance under a pseudonym, he has completed ninety-five books and counting.

Murray Webster Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte. He has published papers on theory, group processes, and education in numerous journals and received the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of ASA for lifetime achievement.

Lisa Slattery Walker (formerly Rashotte) is professor of sociology and organizational science at UNC Charlotte. She received her PhD in sociology from the University of Arizona in 1998. Her research focuses on small group interaction, nonverbal behaviors, identity, emotions, gender, and expectations.

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