Social status: Difference between revisions

'''Social status''' is the relative level of social value a person is considered to possess.<ref name=":2">{{cite journal|last1=Sauder|first1=Michael|last2=Lynn|first2=Freda|last3=Podolny|first3=Joel|title=Status: Insights from Organizational Sociology|journal=Annual Review of Sociology|date=2012|volume=38|pages=267–283|doi=10.1146/annurev-soc-071811-145503|s2cid=73700406}}</ref><ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite journal|last1=Anderson|first1=Cameron|last2=Hildreth|first2=John|last3=Howland|first3=Laura|title=Is the Desire for Status a Fundamental Human Motive? A Review of the Empirical Literature|journal=Psychological Bulletin|date=2015|volume=141|issue=3|pages=574–601|doi=10.1037/a0038781|pmid=25774679|s2cid=17129083}}</ref> Such social value includes respect, [[honour|honor]], assumed competence, and deference.<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Sedikides | first1 = C. | last2 = Guinote | first2 = A. | year = 2018 | title = How Status Shapes Social Cognition: Introduction to the Special Issue, 'The Status of Status: Vistas from Social Cognition' | journal = Social Cognition | volume = 36 | issue = 1| pages = 1–3 | doi=10.1521/soco.2018.36.1.1| doi-access = free | url = https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/10092341/1/Sedikides%20%26%20Guinote.pdf }}</ref> On one hand, social scientists view status as a "reward" for group members who treat others well and take initiative.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ridgeway |first=Cecilia |title=Status: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter?: Why Is It Everywhere? Why Does It Matter? |publisher=Russell Sage Foundation |year=2019}}</ref> This is one explanation for its apparent cross-cultural universality.<ref name="ReferenceA" /> 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.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

 

 

== Definition ==