Social Structure and Situations: The effects of Roles, Actions, and Situations on Interpersonal Perception*

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AUTOR(ES) M.R. Davis , Francesca M. Cancian
ANO 1981
TIPO Artigo
PERIÓDICO Sociological Inquiry
ISSN 0038-0245
E-ISSN 1475-682X
EDITORA Sage Publications (United States)
DOI 10.1111/j.1475-682x.1981.tb01033.x
ADICIONADO EM Não informado

Resumo

This study examines the structural and situational approaches to social action by analyzing the effects of roles, action, and situations on people's perceptions of others. College students were given questionnaires containing short descriptions of interaction between an adult and an adolescent boy. These questionnaires were designed to examine the effects of roles (malefemale and employer‐parent), actions, and several concrete situations on two dependent variables: (1) behavior predictions for the adult in each hypothetical situation. and (2) ratings of the adults on expressive and instrumental attributes. The results support both structural and situational approaches. The parent role has a strong effect on how the adults are predicted to behave and the situation has little effect. But the respondents' rating of the adults is determined primarily by actions not roles.

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