Social Status Measure

A Social Status Measure is a social entity measure of social power.

• Context:
  • output: Social Status Score.
  • It can be used to categorize Social Classes.
  • It can be a part of a Socioeconomic Status.
  • It can range from being an Individual Social Status Measure to being a Group Social Status Measure.
  • It can (often) be based on Status Seeking Behavior.
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• Example(s):
  • a Professional Social Status Measure.
  • a Social Media Social Status Measure.
  • a Familial Social Status Measure.
  • a Racial Group Status Measure.
  • …
• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Psychological Measure.
• See: Social Influence, Office Politics, Social Ladder, Elite, Status Game (2021).

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References

2021

• (Wikipedia, 2021) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/social_status Retrieved:2021-1-11.
  • Social status is a measurement of social value. More specifically, it refers to the relative level of respect, honor, assumed competence, and deference accorded to people, groups, and organizations in a society. Some writers have also referred to a socially valued role or category a person occupies as a "status" (e.g., gender, social class, ethnicity, having a criminal conviction, having a mental illness, etc.). Status is based in beliefs about who members of a society believe holds comparatively more or less social value. By definition, these beliefs are broadly shared among members of a society. As such, people use status hierarchies to allocate resources, leadership positions, and other forms of power. In doing so, these shared cultural beliefs make unequal distributions of resources and power appear natural and fair, supporting systems of social stratification. Status hierarchies appear to be universal across human societies, affording valued benefits to those who occupy the higher rungs, such as better health, social approval, resources, influence, and freedom. Status hierarchies depend primarily on the possession and use of status symbols. These are cues people use to determine how much status a person holds and how they should be treated. Such symbols can include the possession of socially valuable attributes, like being conventionally beautiful or having a prestigious degree. Other status symbols include wealth and its display through conspicuous consumption. Status in face-to-face interaction can also be conveyed through certain controllable behaviors, such as assertive speech, posture, and emotional displays.

2023

• GBard
  • The Status Game is a book by Will Storr that argues that our desire for status is the driving force behind many of our behaviors and decisions. ...
    • There are many different types of status, including social status, professional status, and moral status.

2023

• (García-Peñalosa et al., 2023) ⇒ C. García-Peñalosa, F. Petit, and T. Van Ypersele. (2023). “Can Workers still climb the Social Ladder as Middling Jobs Become Scarce? Evidence from two British cohorts." In: Labour Economics.
  • QUOTE: "The increase in employment polarization observed in several high-income economies has coincided with a reduction in inter-generational mobility. This paper argues that the ..."
  • NOTE: It analyzes the impact of job polarization on climbing the social ladder across generations.

2013

• (Kraus et al., 2013) ⇒ MW. Kraus, JJX. Tan, and M.B. Tannenbaum. (2013). “The Social Ladder: A rank-based perspective on social class." In: Taylor & Francis.
  • QUOTE: "... changes in social class over time is that climbing the social ladder is not likely to be as simple ... elevated position on the social ladder. The Social Ladder as a New Frontier of Research ..."
  • NOTE: It proposes a rank-based conceptualization of social class related to the notion of climbing the social ladder.

2015

• (Rehan & Toth, 2015) ⇒ SM. Rehan, and AL. Toth. (2015). “Climbing the Social Ladder: the Molecular Evolution of Sociality." In: Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2015.
  • QUOTE: "By considering multiple mechanisms as we ‘climb the social ladder’, we can test whether the transitions from solitary to simple sociality to complex sociality represent incremental ..."
  • NOTE: It discusses the evolution of sociality in species, comparing it to climbing a social ladder.

2015

• (Massey et al., 2015) ⇒ AR. Massey, J. Byrd-Craven, BJ. Auer, and others. (2015). “Climbing the Social Ladder: Physiological Response to Social Status in Adolescents." In: Springer.
  • QUOTE: "Social hierarchies and physiology are intricately linked, but these associations have not been well studied in adolescence, typically a time of increased focus on social status. Three ..."
  • NOTE: It examines physiological responses in adolescents to perceptions of climbing the social ladder.

2002

• (Fiske et al., 2002) ⇒ Susan T. Fiske, Amy J.C. Cuddy, Peter Glick, and Jun Xu. (2002). “A Model of (often Mixed) Stereotype Content: Competence and Warmth Respectively Follow from Perceived Status and Competition..” In: Journal of personality and social psychology, 82(6). doi:10.1037/0022-3514.82.6.878
  • QUOTE: Stereotypically, (4) status predicts high competence, and competition predicts low warmth. Nine varied samples rated gender, ethnicity, race, class, age, and disability out-groups. Contrary to antipathy models, 2 dimensions mattered, and many stereotypes were mixed, either pitying (low competence, high warmth subordinates) or envying (high competence, low warmth competitors).

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