Role-Taking and Power in Social Psychology
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5620140 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Darwin L Thomas (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1972 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 605 |
| Publication date | 1972-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2093455 |
| OpenAlex | W2328216717 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 14 |
It is theorized that when structural control resources are not available, persons will tend to use role-taking as a management strategy. Thus role-taking ability is at a premium when the subordinate attempts to balance the structurally based power of a superordinate by increasing the latter's ego gratification in the relationship. Role-taking and power are seen as distinct strategies by which persons achieve control of others. Drawing from a sample of 888 subjects from 222 family units, questionnaire data are analyzed to test the hypothesis that role-taking accuracy will be inversely related to power inside the family. Using position in the nuclear family as an index of power, it was found that fathers were less accurate role-takers than mothers and mothers less accurate than children. Data were also analyzed using children's perceptions of their parents' power and the wife's perceptions of conjugal decision-making as measures of power. Partial support for the hypothesis was found in that dominant wives were poorer role-takers than wives with less decision-making power (autonomic). Research is suggested to test the proposition that role-taking ability may be a function of the person's position on a situationally given role-set rather than a static personality trait
Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Social power · Sociology · Attachment and Relationship Dynamics · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Psychology · Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology · Social Psychology
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The Self
Asymmetrical Role-Taking
Role-taking and robotic form
The Superiority Delusion and Critical Consciousness
Women's intuition
The effect of social role on theory of mind reasoning
Self-Concept and Role Performance Evaluation among Marriage Partners
Modelling Control in Relationships
Theoretical Consideration of Integrating Social Structure Into Symbolic Interactionism
Motivation for Perspective Taking
Structuring Symbolic Interaction
Racial Differences in Women’s Role-Taking Accuracy
Disclaimer mannerisms of students
Ein pleonastisches Oxymoron. Konstruktionsprobleme von Pierre Bourdieus Schlüsselkonzept der symbolischen Gewalt
Ethical and Epistemological Tensions in Applying A Postmodern Perspective to Feminist Research
Sex differences
The inferiority game
Subordination? and sensitivity to nonverbal cues
Sex roles and nonverbal communication skills
Legitimation of Oppression
Meadian Ethical Theory and the Moral Contradictions of Capitalism
Participation in Household and Paid Labor
Role-Taking and Interaction
Role-Taking Accuracy in Medical Encounters
Role Taking Reconsidered
Rekindling the Sociological Imagination In Social Psychology
Human Subordination from a Radical Interactionist's Perspective
The Management of Emotions in the Criminal Justice System
Toward a Sociology of Moral Problem Solving
Role
"Horrible Slime Stories" When Serving Victims
The Effect of Status on Role-Taking Accuracy
Dependency-Bond as Construct
The Emotional Basis of Charisma
Power
Conceptual and Methodological Issues in the Study of Role-taking Accuracy
Power and Role-Taking
Convicted Rapists' Perceptions of Self and Victim
Gender Differences in Sexual Attitudes
Knowing Women
Sources of Self-Esteem in Work
Beyond Maternal Blame
Role Taking and Socialization in Single-Parent Families
Role and Personality among Adolescent Political Activists
La Crème de la Crème
Self-Concept and the Reaction of a Significant Other
Husbands and wives
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
Power-Dependence Relations
Some Neglected Problems in Social Psychology
Foundations of Parental Influence Upon Adolescents
Conjugal Power Structure
Assumed similarity measures as predictors of team effectiveness
Socialization and Adolescent Conformity to Significant Others
Unconscious attitudes as correlates of sociometric choice in a social group
Similarity and assumed similarity of attitudes between husbands and wives
Role-Taking as a Function of Value Similarity and Affect in the Nuclear Family
The Role of the Other in Self-Evaluation
Major Trends in Symbolic Interaction Theory in the Past Twenty-five Years
Some Problems in Defining Social Power
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,94 |
| Citation span | 1976 - 2023 (48) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |