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hierarchy of credibility: a standalone construct

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Sociology

the tendency to grant those at the top of an institution the right to define how things really are, so their accounts count as more credible than those below.

In sociology, hierarchy of credibility refers to the tendency to grant those at the top of an institution the right to define how things really are, so their accounts count as more credible than those below. This meaning comes from Becker (1967) in Social Problems.[1]

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accounts1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct count2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs grant1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Becker, H. S. (1967). Whose Side Are We On? Social Problems, 14(3), 239-247. https://doi.org/10.2307/799147

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