Social Power, Social Status and Perceptual Similarity of Workplace Victimization: A Social Network Analysis of Stratification
研究通过社会网络分析，考察政府雇员中友谊、建议和厌恶网络中的权力与地位差异如何影响个体对职场受害的感知一致性，发现非对称关系和结构对等性会加剧受害感知。
This article develops and tests a comprehensive social structural model of social power and status effects on victimization in organizations. Victimization focuses on the extent to which individuals perceive themselves to be the target of negative or aggressive behaviors by others. The conceptual framework elucidates how formal and informal status differences associated with access to social powers in three different social networks are related to victimization perceptions. Using dyads as the unit of analysis in a sample of government employees, we find that asymmetric relationships between two actors in the friendship and advice networks, and structural equivalence in the advice and dislike networks are associated with perceptual agreement. The results suggest that stratification in a social system may create the context in which victimization thrives because it affects access to informal forms of social power.