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Shifting standards due to social class? The role of social class background in CEO career outcomes
Strategic Management Journal, EarlyView.Abstract Research Summary This study investigates how social class background shapes CEO career outcomes. Extending the shifting standards model to post‐appointment evaluation, we theorize that CEOs from lower‐class backgrounds face persistently high confirmatory standards, producing asymmetric consequences.
Michelle Lee, Shelby L. Gai
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Symbolic Interaction, EarlyView.This article engages in a close rereading of Stigma, relating it to Goffman's biography as a person who faced stigma. Exploring his biography helps us to recognize the ways Goffman applies stigma strategies in how he represents himself as the author in Stigma.
Thaddeus Müller
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British Journal of Management, EarlyView.Abstract The role of business schools in exacerbating social and environmental issues has become increasingly apparent. However, substantive change is often stymied at both individual and institutional levels by a ubiquitous pressure on faculty members to conform to a specific embodiment of the ‘successful academic’.
Simon Oldham, Helen Wadham
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Status as Deference: Cultural Meaning as a Source of Occupational Behavior
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences, 2022 Status is an independent basis of inequality. Cultural meanings create the voluntary esteem and deference that distinguish status inequities from inequalities in power and material resources, as Cecilia Ridgeway and Hazel Markus explain in the ...
E. K. Maloney +2 more
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Who Is a Patriotic Man? Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity in Modern Iran
Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article examines the analytical viability of the concept of “hegemonic masculinity” in the historical study of masculinities in early‐twentieth‐century Iran (c.1890–1941). It argues that a radical problematizing of the concepts of hegemony, class, “the West,” and patriotism helps us move beyond the binaries of Western‐Iranian and modern ...
Ali Hashemian
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Management Dynamics in the Knowledge Economy, 2015 Most studies discuss occupational prestige by stressing out the macro-social aspects related to specific social stratification models. This paper aims to address the impact of organizational aspects on how teachers perceive the prestige of their ...
Valeriu FRUNZARU, Diana-Luiza DUMITRIU
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Empirical Research in Vocational Education and TrainingThis study examines whether premature termination of vocational education and training (VET) is more likely when trainees have to make compromises between their realistic occupational aspirations and the occupation for which they are trained in terms of ...
Melanie Fischer-Browne +3 more
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932
History, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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International Journal for Equity in HealthBackground Limited lung function represents a serious health impairment. However, studies investigating social inequalities in limited lung function are rare.
Johannes Beller +4 more
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Stuck at the Bottom? Gender and Immigrants’ Entrapment in Low-skilled Work
Nordic Journal of Working Life StudiesImmigrant women are widely portrayed as facing a serious labor market disadvantage, yet gender differences in immigrants’ occupational mobility have been little explored. The article studied gender gaps in immigrants’ occupational entrapment, defined as
Anne Grönlund, Madelene Nordlund
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