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Morris Zelditch

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PhD Sociology Columbia University
Masters Sociology Columbia University
Bachelors Sociology Columbia University

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According to Wikipedia, Morris "Buzz" Zelditch was an American sociologist. He was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at Stanford University, where he had been a member of the faculty since 1961. He was known for his work on the effects of status characteristics embedded in the stratification of the larger society, legitimacy of structures of authority, and generalizability of the results of sociological experiments.

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Morris Zelditch's Published Works

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Status Characteristics and Social Interaction (1972) (1318)
STATUS ORGANIZING PROCESSES (1980) (905)
Status Characteristics and Social Interaction. (1978) (438)
Sociological theories in progress (1966) (326)
Some Methodological Problems of Field Studies (1962) (273)
Theories of legitimacy. (2001) (258)
Processes of Legitimation: Recent Developments and New Directions* (2001) (228)
Status, rewards, and influence (1985) (162)
Role differentiation in the nuclear family: a comparative study (1955) (117)
Construction of Status and Referential Structures* (2002) (113)
Legitimation, Endorsement, and Stability (1986) (102)
Theoretical Research Programs: Studies in the Growth of Theory (1994) (92)
Legitimacy and Collective Action (1986) (86)
Status, Power, and Legitimacy: Strategies and Theories (1999) (74)
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations (1989) (71)
The Review Process and Its Consequences in the Major Sociology Journals@@@American Journal of Sociology, 1975-1977.@@@American Sociological Review, 1975-1977.@@@Social Forces, 1975-1977. (1979) (68)
New directions in contemporary sociological theory (2003) (67)
Status, Rewards, and Influence: How Expectations Organize Behavior. (1987) (67)
THE LEGITIMACY OF REGIMES (2003) (66)
Distributive Justice: A Status Value Formulation (2015) (60)
Status Characteristics and Expectation States (2015) (58)
CULTURE IN ACTION : SYMBOLS AND (1986) (50)
How Are Inconsistencies Between Status and Ability Resolved (1980) (50)
Legitimacy and Collective Action: A Research Note (1988) (49)
Reactions to Inequity (1969) (35)
Status, Power, and Accounts (1997) (34)
The normative regulation of power (2000) (31)
Legitimacy and the Stability of Authority (2018) (27)
Uncertainty, Potential Power, and Nondecisions (1994) (26)
A basic course in statistics with sociological applications (1969) (25)
Status, Power, and Legitimacy (1997) (20)
A Basic Course In Sociological Statistics (1959) (19)
Theory Programs and Theoretical Problems* (2005) (17)
Sociological Theories in Progress, Volume 2. (1974) (15)
INSTITUTIONAL EFFECTS ON THE STABILITY OF ORGANIZATIONAL AUTHORITY (2004) (14)
The Big Three and the Status of Sociology@@@American Journal of Sociology, 1975-1977.@@@American Sociological Review, 1975-1977.@@@Social Forces, 1975-1977. (1979) (13)
Artifacts and Challenges: A Comment on Lee and Ofshe (1983) (12)
Status Classes in Organizations (1966) (12)
On Conservative Attitudes (1965) (11)
Thirty Years of Advances in Group Processes: A Review Essay (2013) (10)
Rank Equilibration and Political Behavior (1964) (9)
A Test of the Law of Anticipated Reactions (1988) (8)
Status Characteristics and Expectation States: A Process Model (2015) (8)
Equitable Comparisons (1970) (7)
Recent Journal Sociology: The Substitution of Method for Theory@@@American Journal of Sociology, 1975-1977.@@@American Sociological Review, 1975-1977.@@@Social Forces, 1975-1977. (1979) (7)
Mathematical Models in the Social Sciences@@@Types of Formalization in Small-Group Research (1963) (6)
Comments from a Servant of the Scattered Family@@@American Journal of Sociology, 1975-1977.@@@American Sociological Review, 1975-1977.@@@Social Forces, 1975-1977. (1979) (5)
How Expectation States Organize Theory Construction@@@Status, Rewards, and Influence: How Expectations Organize Behavior. (1986) (5)
Decisions, Nondecisions, and Metadecisions (2015) (5)
Extending Equity Theory@@@Equity Theory: Toward a General Theory of Social Interaction, Vol. 9 of Advances in Experimental Social Psychology.@@@Equity: Theory and Research. (1981) (4)
Navaho and Ute Peyotism: A Chronological and Distributional Study.David F. Aberle , Omer C. Stewart (1958) (4)
Levels of Specificity within Theoretical Strategies (1991) (4)
Three Questions about the Legitimacy of Groups and the Mobilization of Resources (2011) (3)
Do multiple strategies converge? (1979) (3)
Outsiders' Politics (1978) (3)
Why Was the ASR So Atheoretical?@@@American Journal of Sociology, 1975-1977.@@@American Sociological Review, 1975-1977.@@@Social Forces, 1975-1977. (1979) (3)
Theoretical Research Programs: A Reformulation (2018) (3)
Meaning, conformity, and control* (1984) (3)
Expectation States Theory: The Status of a Research Program (2015) (3)
Statistical Marriage Preferences of the Ramah Navaho (1959) (3)
A basic course in sociological statistics : a textbook and workbook combined (1960) (2)
Chapter 13 Legitimacy Theory (2020) (2)
The Home for the Aged — A Community (1962) (2)
Sociological Theories in Progress: Volume Two. (1974) (2)
Problems and Progress in Sociological Theory (1992) (2)
Programs for the mentally impaired in homes for the aged: preliminary report of a survey. (1967) (2)
On the Balance of a Set of Ranks (2015) (2)
Expectations, Shared Awareness, and Power (2017) (2)
Sociological Theories in Progress. Vol. I. (1967) (2)
Money, Science, and Politics (1989) (2)
Book Review:Field Work: An Introduction to the Social Sciences. Buford H. Junker (1961) (1)
THE MODERN HOME FOR THE AGED. PRINCIPLES UNDERLYING DESIGN OF PROGRAM AND PLANT. (1965) (1)
The “ Spirit ” of Capitalism Revisited : Stephen Kalberg on His Translation of Weber ’ s Protestant Ethic (2002) (1)
Stability of Organizational Status Structures (2015) (1)
Social Change and Its Impact on the Services We Render (1962) (1)
Sociological Theories in Progress: New Formulations. (1991) (1)
Trends in Care of the Aged (1957) (1)
Effects of a Legitimate Authority's Justification of Inequality on the Mobilization of Revolutionary Coalitions (2015) (1)
Consensus, Dissensus, and Justification (2018) (1)
Prize Winners Announced Heimer and Staffen Win Theory Prize (2002) (0)
• Translation of Protestant Ethic • Emotions and Sociological Theory • Sociological Imagination Group • Theory Training in Sociology • Call for Nominations: Theory Section (2001) (0)
A Working Strategy for Constructing Theories: State Organizing Processes (2018) (0)
Why Do Individuals Nondecide under Uncertainty (2017) (0)
The Legitimacy of Groups and the Mobilization of Resources (2015) (0)
Elementary Social Statistics.@@@A Basic Course in Statistics, With Sociological Applications. (1976) (0)
Symposium: Casework and the Aging Population (1949) (0)
Corrigenda: A Basic Course in Statistics, with Sociological Applications. (1969) (0)
Review Essay: Social Psycholigy in the Eighties@@@Sociological Perspectives on Social Psychology (1995) (0)
Strategies, Theories, and Models (1993) (0)
Book Review: Where Do People Take Their Troubles? (1945) (0)
Legitimation, Endorsement, and Compliance (2015) (0)
A Revised Bibliography of Expectation States Research (2017) (0)
Social Psycholigy in the Eighties (2016) (0)
Status Conditions of Self Evaluation (2015) (0)
"Values" Institutionalized in the Family (1957) (0)
Review Essay: Outsiders' Politics (2016) (0)
Responses to Reviews (2000) (0)
The Legitimacy of Redistributive Agendas (2017) (0)
Status, Excuses, and Justifications (2017) (0)
Legitimacy and the Support of Revolutionary Coalitions (2017) (0)
Book Review:Research Methods in Social Relations. Claire Selltiz, Marie Jahoda, Morton Deutsch, Stuart Cook (1960) (0)
Interpreting the 1848 Revolutions: Bringing Politics Back In (2001) (0)
Twenty-Five Years of the Group Processes Conference: A Review Essay (2014) (0)
Generalizing and Historical Orientations in Sociology (2018) (0)
A Bibliography of Expectation States Research (2015) (0)
Letters to the Editor (1962) (0)

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