兔子先生

Associate Professor
Department Chair 

Phone: 713.743.0267
Email: svsavage@uh.edu
Office: 491 Philip G. Hoffman Hall

Education

Ph.D., Sociology, University of Arizona
M.A., Sociology, University of Arizona
B.A., Political Science and Sociology, Wake Forest University

Biography

Scott Savage is an associate professor and the department chair of sociology at the 兔子先生. His research sits at the intersection of social psychology and organizational theory. As a social psychologist, he studies how identity, exchange, status and racial homophily processes induce inequality, bind individuals together, and generate social influence. As an organizational theorist, he recognizes these processes regularly occur in organizational settings and explores how they perpetuate social inequality in organizations. His research interests follow from these two emphases, with the goal of uncovering the micro-level processes that propagate inefficiencies and inequalities in groups and organizations.

Professor Savage鈥檚 research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and can be found in various scholarly outlets, including American Journal of Sociology, Social Problems, Social Forces, Social Psychology Quarterly, Social Science Research, The Sociological Quarterly and Sociological Perspectives.

Professor Savage also runs the Small Groups Laboratory (SGL) on campus. If you would like to learn more about the activities in the lab, feel free to email him. 

Research Interests

• Social Psychology
• Small Group Behavior
• Sociology of Work/Professions
• Sociology of Organizations
• Social Inequality
• Organizational Inequality

Teaching

• Introduction to Sociological Research
• Formal and Complex Organizations
• Organizational Inequality
• Research Methods
• Small Group Behavior
• Social Psychology
• Sociology of Work

Selected Publications

• Savage, Scott V., Ryan Seebruck, and Sloan Rucker. 2024. 鈥淭he Downstream Consequences of Race-Related Managerial Job Insecurity: Insights from College Basketball Coaching" Social Currents 
• Whitham, Monica M. and Scott V. Savage. 2024. 鈥淩efusal and Acceptance in Reciprocal Social Exchange.鈥�  Social Psychology Quarterly  
• Savage, Scott V. and Kathryn Freeman Anderson. 2023. 鈥淩acial Differences in the Occupational and Geographic Mobility of NCAA Division I Basketball Assistant Coaches.鈥� Race & Social Problems
• Savage, Scott V. and David Melamed. 2022. 鈥淗ow Social Influence Processes Generate Cohesion in Task Groups.鈥� Social Psychology Quarterly 85:44鈥�64.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V. 2022. 鈥淪tatus and Power in Exchange.鈥� In Unequals: The Power of Status and Expectations in our Social Lives, edited by M. Webster, Jr. and L.S. Walker. New York: Oxford University Press. 
• Burke, Peter J., Jan E. Stets, and Scott V. Savage. 2021. 鈥淧unishment and the Dominance Identity in Exchange Networks.鈥� Social Science Research 
• Savage, Scott V., Joseph Dippong, and David Melamed. 2020. 鈥淪tatus and Competitive Choice.鈥� Social Science Research 88-89:102鈥�430.&苍产蝉辫;
• Seebruck, Ryan and Scott V. Savage. 2020. 鈥淭o Promote or Hire? How Racial Processes and Organizational Characteristics Affect Internal Promotions in NCAA DI College Basketball Coaching.鈥� Social Problems 67:546鈥�564.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V., Peter J. Burke, Jan E. Stets, and Phoenicia Fares. 2019. 鈥淭he Fairness Identity and the Emergence of Inequality.鈥� Social Science Research&苍产蝉辫;81:144鈥�156.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V. and Monica M. Whitham. 2018. 鈥淭he Social Exchange Perspective.鈥� Pp. 29-53 in Contemporary Social Psychological Theories, 2nd Edition, edited by Peter J. Burke. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 
• Stets, Jan E., Peter J. Burke, Scott V. Savage. 2018. 鈥淓xchange, Identity Verification, and the Development of Social Bonds.鈥� Social Psychology Quarterly&苍产蝉辫;81(3):207鈥�227.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V., Jan E. Stets, Peter J. Burke, and Zachary L. Sommer. 2017. 鈥淚dentity and Exchange: The Fairness Identity and Power Use in an Exchange Network.鈥� Sociological Perspectives&苍产蝉辫;60(3):510鈥�528.&苍产蝉辫;
• Melamed, David and Scott V. Savage. 2016. 鈥淪tatus, Faction Sizes, and Social Influence: Testing the Theoretical Mechanism.鈥� American Journal of Sociology&苍产蝉辫;122(1):201鈥�232.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V. and Zachary L. Sommer. 2016. 鈥淪hould I Stay or Should I Go? How the Form of Exchange Affects Whether Disadvantaged Actors Remain in Networks.鈥� Social Psychology Quarterly 79(2):115鈥�135.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V. and Ryan Seebruck. 2016. 鈥淩ace, Supervisorial Change, and Job Outcomes: The Case of NCAA Division I College Basketball.鈥� The Sociological Quarterly&苍产蝉辫;57(3):415鈥�436.&苍产蝉辫;
• Savage, Scott V., David Melamed, and Aaron Vincent. 2013. 鈥淯ncertainty and Social Influence: Effects of Status and Numbers.鈥� Advances in Group Processes 30:109-129. 
• Melamed, David and Scott V. Savage. 2013. 鈥淪tatus, Numbers, and Influence.鈥� Social Forces 91(3):1085鈥�1104.&苍产蝉辫;

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