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Murray Webster Jr. is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Sociology at UNC Charlotte. After earning his AB, MA, and PhD at Stanford University, he served as a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University and the University of South Carolina, as well as a visiting faculty at San Jose State University, Emory University, and Stanford University. He has published papers on theory, group processes, and education in numerous journals and received the Cooley-Mead Award from the Social Psychology Section of ASA for lifetime achievement. He has twice served as Sociology Program Director at the National Science Foundation.Lisa Slattery Walker (formerly Rashotte) is Professor of Sociology and Organizational Science at UNC Charlotte. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of Arizona in 1998. Her research focuses on small group interaction, nonverbal behaviors, identity, emotions, gender, and expectations. Her work has appeared in Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, Social Forces, Sex Roles, and numerous other journals. Dr. Walker has been PI or co-PI on six NSF-funded projects.

The study of status is undergoing a revival in sociology. There is no better time for this excellent review of the theoretical research program that grew out of Joseph Berger's work. Beginning with the rich history in Berger's upbringing and his early days at Harvard with Parsons and Bales, through the formal development of the theory, and on to its most cutting edge new contributions, this collection is a goldmine for those of us who work in the tradition and for those who teach it to new generations of scholars.

• PrefaceList of Contributors1: Murray Webster, Jr. and Lisa Slattery Walker: Status and Expectation Processes2: Joseph Berger: Some History and a Personal Journey3: Joseph Berger and Murray Webster, Jr.: Anatomy of the Expectation States Research Program*4: Murray Webster, Jr. and Joseph Dippong: Six Ways to Measure Status and Expectations5: John Skvoretz: Status Orders as Tournaments: Tests of an Expectation States Model for the Emergence of Status Orders in Task Groups6: David Melamed and Bradley Montgomery: Graded Status in Expectation State Theories7: Sarah K. Harkness: Construction and the Spread of Status8: Scott V. Savage: Status and Power in Exchange9: Rachel A. Lotan: Equitable Classrooms: A Compelling Connection between Theory and Practice10: Lisa Slattery Walker: Status Value of Gender, Age, Race, Parenthood, and Beauty11: Alison J. Bianchi: Expectation States Theories and Organizations: Incorporating the Institutional Logics Perspective for Future Research Agendas12: Jeffrey W. Lucas and Crosby Hipes: Effects of Mental Illness, Veteran, and Criminal Record Labels on Status- and Stigma-Related OutcomesIndex