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Master status
About: Master status is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 126 publications have been published within this topic receiving 6016 citations.
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TL;DR: The relevant evidence suggests that the desire for status is indeed fundamental, and the importance of status was observed across individuals who differed in culture, gender, age, and personality, supporting the universality of the status motive.
Abstract: The current review evaluates the status hypothesis, which states that that the desire for status is a fundamental motive. Status is defined as the respect, admiration, and voluntary deference individuals are afforded by others. It is distinct from related constructs such as power, financial success, and social belongingness. A review of diverse literatures lent support to the status hypothesis: People’s subjective well-being, self-esteem, and mental and physical health appear to depend on the level of status they are accorded by others. People engage in a wide range of goal-directed activities to manage their status, aided by myriad cognitive, behavioral, and affective processes; for example, they vigilantly monitor the status dynamics in their social environment, strive to appear socially valuable, prefer and select social environments that offer them higher status, and react strongly when their status is threatened. The desire for status also does not appear to be a mere derivative of the need to belong, as some theorists have speculated. Finally, the importance of status was observed across individuals who differed in culture, gender, age, and personality, supporting the universality of the status motive. Therefore, taken as a whole, the relevant evidence suggests that the desire for status is indeed fundamental.
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TL;DR: The resulting contradictions and dilemmas of status are solved in various ways, some of which are here illustrated.
Abstract: There tends to grow up about a status, in addition to its specifically determining traits, a complex of auxiliary characteristics expected of its incumbents. The informal codes of fellow-workers often implicity reflect these expectations. In our mobile society these expectations are constantly violated. The resulting contradictions and dilemmas of status are solved in various ways, some of which are here illustrated.
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TL;DR: The main focus of the Biau-Duncan model is on the SITUC-t' lure at status tra~smissio~ ifhil~ the Wisconsin model focuses on social dynamics as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: R~cent \"es~a~ch 011 strat~fi.cation has moved away from traditional concerns wIth d~sCTlptlOJl ,of mobllrty rales and toward explanation of the processes by 'W/ueh educatIOnal and occut}QI!'onal positions are attained. TJus paper PTesents aud compares the two mam theoretical models emerging from this lme of rescC;T~h. T.he Blau-Duncan a~d lVisconsin models of status attain\"!e~t are sl,!,!lar rn .the causal ordenng of positional variables and )'ield sl~mlaT empmcal estimates Of paths of iflfluence. despite being based on ~dlDeTent samples. The main focus of the Biau-Duncan model is on the SITUC-t:' lure at status tra~smissio~ ifhil~ the lVisconsin model focuses on social psycliOloglca~ dynamKs mullatmg Interpersonal infiu(mces on individual aUainment. n,UerC!lt aspects Of this me4iati?n a.re .discussed on the basis 01 completed lVrsc~nstn research: Practical unplJCatlOns of the two attainment models are exarmned. A paradJgm for future research in this area is presented.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors empirically tested cohort and sex effects on quantified indexes of de-standardization based on data from the Swiss Household Panel and found that a strong impact of cohorts on indices of destandardization was found for both family and occupational trajectories.
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| 2021 | 3 |
| 2020 | 1 |
| 2019 | 2 |
| 2018 | 2 |
| 2017 | 6 |
| 2016 | 10 |