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Social status is your position or rank within a social structure—essentially where you stand relative to others in society based on factors like wealth, education, occupation, or family background. It matters because it often affects access to opportunities, resources, and how others treat you in daily life.
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It sits within the topics Anthropology, Social status and Social stratification.
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Research
207,978 papers- Neural mechanism underlying depressive-like state associated with social status loss.Cell · 2023Fan Z, Chang J, Liang Y et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.033
- Social status and modern-type depression: A review.ReviewBrain and behavior · 2019Komori T, Makinodan M, Kishimoto TDOI: 10.1002/brb3.1464
- Subjective social status and health: Multidisciplinary explanations and methodological challenges.ReviewJournal of health psychology · 2020Hoebel J, Lampert TDOI: 10.1177/1359105318800804
- Social Status and Gene Regulation: Conservation and Context Dependence in Primates.ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences · 2019Simons ND, Tung JDOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2019.06.003
- Bullying perpetration and social status in the peer group: A meta-analysis.ReviewJournal of adolescence · 2023Wiertsema M, Vrijen C, van der Ploeg R et al.DOI: 10.1002/jad.12109
- Social sleepers: The effects of social status on sleep in terrestrial mammals.ReviewHormones and behavior · 2022Smeltzer EA, Stead SM, Li MF et al.DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105181
- Social status and unethical behavior: Two replications of the field studies in Piff et al. (2012).ReviewJournal of experimental psychology. General · 2023Jung MH, Smeets P, Stoop J et al.DOI: 10.1037/xge0001333
- Social Status as a Latent Variable in the Amygdala of Observers of Social Interactions.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Lee S, Rutishauser U, Gothard KMDOI: 10.1101/2024.07.15.603487
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Encyclopedic overview
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. People with higher status experience a litany of benefits—such as greater health, admiration, resources, influence, and freedom; conversely, 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, such as 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “social status” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.