Stratification, Work, and Values: A Polish-United States Comparison

Slomczynski, Kazimierz M.; Miller, Julie; Kohn, Melvin L.

doi:10.2307/2095076

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“…The results of this study and studies from various countries (Mortimer & Lorence, 1979; Naoi & Schooler, 1981; Slomczynski, Miller, & Kohn, 1981) provide strong support for the socializing impact of occupational experience, for both men and women. The analysis also demonstrates that occupational selection processes do occur.…”

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A Theory of Productive Activity: The Relationships Among Self-Concept, Gender, Sex Role Stereotypes, and Work-Emergent Traits

Yount

1986

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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A theoretical framework is presented that focuses on the division of labor by gender to account for both sex role stereotypes and the correspondence between these stereotypes and the self‐concepts of women and men. According to this framework, the self‐images of adults are largely constituted by attributes generated by their productive activity. These attributes, referred to as work‐emergent traits, are consequences of working within particular social and physical conditions of production because they help individuals to perform work tasks and to regulate their emotional responses to the Stressors attendant upon their work roles. Because of sexual segregation in the work force, certain traits have been generalized to all women and to all men, appearing as sex role stereotypes. Although the sexual division of labor is the root cause of stereotypical beliefs regarding the attributes of women and men, the beliefs themselves also sustain the division of labor. Suggestive pilot data, which provide initial substantiation for this theoretical perspective, are briefly discussed.

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A Theory of Productive Activity: The Relationships Among Self-Concept, Gender, Sex Role Stereotypes, and Work-Emergent Traits

Yount

1986

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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“…The HoUingshead Index is a widely used and we 11-validated measure of the position individuals occupy in the status structure (for a review, see Miller, 1991). It is considered to be as strong an indicator of occupational status as several other well-accepted socioeconomic status indexes, such as the Duncan Socioeconomic Index (Slomczynski, Miller, & Kohn, 1981), and has been used in a variety of research settings. The HoUingshead Index consists of two scales measuring occupational prestige and educational attainment.…”

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Plaster or Plasticity: Are Adult Work Experiences Associated with Personality Change in Women?

Roberts

1997

Journal of Personality

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The present study tested whether work experiences were associated with personality change across two periods of adulthood (age 21 to 27 and 27 to 43) in a longitudinal sample of women (N = 81). Two competing theoretical perspectives were tested: the plaster theory, which claims that personality does not change after age 30, and the plasticity theory, which claims that personality can change at any time in adulthood. Evidence was found for both correlational consistency of personality in adulthood and for the socialization effect of work on personality change. Work experiences were not associated with personality change in young adulthood but were associated with changes between young adulthood and midlife. In the period from age 27 to age 43 women who worked more became more agentic, and women who were more successful in their work became both more agentic and more normadhering. This pattern of associations between personality change and work experience provided support for the plasticity model of personality change.

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“…Two main tendencies describe value influences by social structure constructs, such as class, occupation, and status (Kohn, Naoi, Schoenbach, Schooler, & Slomczynski, 1990;Slomczynski, Miller, & Kohn, 1981 (Finkin, 1998), which usually requires assimilation into an institution's processes, approaches, and values (Chatman, 1989;Tang & Chamberlain, 2003). Considering the socializing effects of the tenure process, tenured academics' goals and values should generally match those of their institution.…”

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A Model of Management Academics' Intentions to Influence Values

Moosmayer¹

2012

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Stratification, Work, and Values: A Polish-United States Comparison

Cited by 85 publications

References 7 publications

A Theory of Productive Activity: The Relationships Among Self-Concept, Gender, Sex Role Stereotypes, and Work-Emergent Traits

A Theory of Productive Activity: The Relationships Among Self-Concept, Gender, Sex Role Stereotypes, and Work-Emergent Traits

Plaster or Plasticity: Are Adult Work Experiences Associated with Personality Change in Women?

A Model of Management Academics' Intentions to Influence Values

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