How Helping Can Reinforce or Attenuate Status Inequalities: The Case of Nonprofit Organizations

Lehn M. Benjamin

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.11

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 7 210-227

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.11

Published By

RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 29, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Benjamin, Lehn M. 2022. “How Helping Can Reinforce or Attenuate Status Inequalities: The Case of Nonprofit Organizations.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(7): 210–27. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.11. I owe a debt of gratitude to many who have taken the time to read earlier versions of this article and offer critical comments. I thank the editors of this special issue, along with the other contributors, for their feedback. A special thanks to those who provided suggestions on previous drafts, including Imhotep Adisa, Thomasina Borkman, Dave C. Campbell, Dana Doan, Barbara Duffy, Patrick Dwyer, Jennifer Mosley, Lisa Ranghelli, Jodi Sandfort, and Pambana Uishi. I also thank Sara Konrath, who first pointed me in the direction of the social psychology research. Earlier versions of this article were presented at the University of Chicago’s Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs, and the European Group for Organizational Studies annual conference. Thank you to participants in those venues for their thoughtful questions and to others I may have inadvertently forgotten in this acknowledgment. I remain responsible for remaining errors, omissions, and limitations. Direct correspondence to: Lehn M. Benjamin, at benjamin@iu.edu, 301 University Blvd., Suite 3000, Indianapolis, IN 46202, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.