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Status as Deference: Cultural Meaning as a Source of Occupational Behavior

E. K. Maloney, Kimberly B. Rogers, Lynn Smith-Lovin
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (7) 70-88; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.04
E. K. Maloney
aGraduate student in the Department of Sociology at Duke University
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bAssociate professor of sociology at Dartmouth College
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Lynn Smith-Lovin
cProfessor of Arts and Sciences in the Department of Sociology at Duke University
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