What Is Social Status?

Re:What Is Social Status? by canistel on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:15AM (#36185356)

All my life I have been fascinated by how people pursue and signal status. Interestingly though, there do not seem to be many books written on this subject. Please do recommend if you are aware of any that touch upon, conspicuous consumption, status signalling etc.

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Re:What Is Social Status? by postsantum on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:34AM (#36185484)

Status-as-a-service

https://www.eugenewei.com/blog/2019/2/19/status-as-a-service

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Re:What Is Social Status? by junkerm on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:33AM (#36185474)

I recommend Andreas Reckwitz: The Society of Singularities. It changed the way I look at society. At its core is a very broad concept of status called singularities (at least that is my understanding)

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Re:What Is Social Status? by gsatic on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:38AM (#36185513)

Theory of the Leisure Class by Veblen (of Veblen Goods fame)

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Re:What Is Social Status? by p0nce on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:17AM (#36185365)

Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste

My terrible summing up would be that the book explores the way "status" can be hoarded across generations.

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Re:What Is Social Status? by aspenmayer on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#36185413)

The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions (1899), by Thorstein Veblen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Theory_of_the_Leisure_Clas...

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Re:What Is Social Status? by hirundo on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:18AM (#36185374)

The Elephant in the Brain, Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson

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Re:What Is Social Status? by golemotron on Sunday June 04, 2023 @09:46AM (#36185560)

Class: A Guide Through the American Status System by Paul Fussell

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Re:What Is Social Status? by CiceroCiceronis on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:01AM (#36185683)

Both the introduction and the “Status” chapter of Keith Johnstone’s Impro book will interest you greatly.

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Re:What Is Social Status? by wahnfrieden on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:38AM (#36185940)

Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style

Capital Vols 1&2

Graeber: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-ve...

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Re:What Is Social Status? by JALTU on Sunday June 04, 2023 @10:45AM (#36185986)

My two favorites, and I think they're a complementary pair, both published recently (2021)...

* The Status Game: On Human Life and How to Play It by (the best-selling author) Will Storr

* Status Games: Why We Play and How to Stop by Loretta Graziano Breuning

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Re:What Is Social Status? by Graziano_M on Sunday June 04, 2023 @11:50AM (#36186546)

I have to read that second book just because the author has my name

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