Dominance hierarchies are group-level properties that emerge from the aggression of individuals. Although individuals can gain critical benefits from their position in a hierarchy, we do not understand how real-world hierarchies form. Nor do we understand what signals and decision-rules individuals use to construct and maintain hierarchies in the absence of simple cues such as size or spatial l...

Abstract This article suggests that one of the understudied and substantive ways in which actors produce transform social hierarchies classifications is by aligning mis-aligning genres. Alignments within across genres have furnished methods for construing evaluating qualities people – as examples, genre repertoires job applications or promotion dossiers. A fine attunement to new emergent semiot...

This essay traces the development of the research enterprise, known as the social resources theory, which formulated and tested a number of propositions concerning the relationships between embedded resources in social networks and socioeconomic attainment. This enterprise, seen in the light of social capital, has accumulated a substantial body of research literature and supported the propositi...

How closely does stature (reputation) correspond to objective measures of actual performance? In the following article, reprinted from Social Science Quarterly, 1 James A. Christenson, Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, and Lee Sigelman, now dean. Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, compare impact-factor data from the Social Science...

Many mammalian species form dominance hierarchies, but it remains unknown whether differences in social status correspond to structural differences in the brain. Stressful experiences may arise naturally during the establishment of dominance, and stress has been linked to adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus. To determine whether position in a dominance hierarchy leads to changes in adult neur...

Actors in realistic social networks play not one but a number of diverse roles depending on whom they interact with, and a large number of such role-specific interactions collectively determine social communities and their organizations. Methods for analyzing social networks should capture these multi-faceted rolespecific interactions, and, more interestingly, discover the latent organization o...

Social Network services have quickly become a powerful means by which people share real-time messages. Typically, social networks are modeled as large underlying graphs. Responding to this emerging trend, it becomes critically important to interactively view and analyze this massive amount of data from different perspectives and with multiple granularities. While Online analytical processing (O...