Social Status Measure

A Social Status Measure is a social measure that quantifies the level of social power within social hierarchy.

• Context:
  • It can (typically) evaluate Social Status Score through social value assessment.
  • It can (typically) categorize Social Class through status classification.
  • It can (typically) contribute to Socioeconomic Status through social position evaluation.
  • It can (often) assess Social Value through respect level, honor, and deference.
  • It can (often) analyze Status Symbols through conspicuous consumption and social display.
  • It can (often) consider Status Beliefs through cultural perception and social judgment.
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  • It can range from being an Individual Social Status Measure to being a Group Social Status Measure, depending on its measurement scope.
  • It can range from being a Professional Status Measure to being a Social Media Status Measure to being a Familial Status Measure, depending on its social domain.
  • It can range from being an Objective Status Measure to being a Subjective Status Measure, depending on its measurement approach.
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  • It can guide Social Status-Associated Behaviors (such as status seeking).
  • It can influence Resource Distribution through social stratification.
  • It can affect Social Mobility through generational change.
  • It can predict Health Outcomes through social position impact.
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• Examples:
  • Professional Status Measures (to assess workplace standing), such as:
    • Occupational Prestige Measures (to evaluate career status), such as:
      • Job Title Rankings like measuring executive position levels.
      • Income Level Assessments like comparing salary brackets.
  • Social Media Status Measures (to quantify digital influence), such as:
    • Online Influence Measures (to evaluate digital presence), such as:
      • Follower Count Metrics like tracking audience size.
      • Engagement Rate Analysis like measuring content impact.
  • Familial Status Measures (to assess family standing), such as:
    • Generational Wealth Measures (to evaluate family resources), such as:
      • Asset Holding Analysis like assessing property ownership.
      • Legacy Position Metrics like measuring family name recognition.
  • ...
• Counter-Examples:
  • a Psychological Measure, which assesses mental state rather than social position.
  • an Economic Measure, which quantifies financial value rather than social value.
  • a Physical Measure, which measures material property rather than social property.
• See: Social Influence, Office Politics, Social Ladder, Elite, Status Game (2021).

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_status Retrieved:2024-11-27.
  • Social status is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess. Such social value includes respect, honor, assumed competence, and deference. On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members who treat others well and take initiative. This is one explanation for its apparent cross-cultural universality. On the other hand, while people with higher status experience a litany of benefits—such as greater health, admiration, resources, influence, and freedom—those with lower status experience poorer outcomes across all of those metrics. Importantly, status is based in widely shared beliefs about who members of a society judge as more competent or moral. While such beliefs can stem from an impressive performance or success, they can also arise from possessing characteristics a society has deemed meaningful like a person's race or occupation. In this way, status reflects how a society judges a person's relative social worth and merit—however accurate or inaccurate that judgement may be. Because societies use status to allocate resources, leadership positions, and other forms of power, status can make unequal distributions of resources and power appear natural and fair, supporting systems of social stratification.

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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