The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality

Cecilia L. Ridgeway; Hazel Rose Markus

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.01

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 7 1-25

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.01

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

Print ISSN

2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online November 29, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Ridgeway, Cecilia L., and Hazel Rose Markus. 2022. “The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(7): 1–25. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.01. The authors would like to thank Amrita Maitreyi for producing figure 1 for us. Direct correspondence to: Cecilia L. Ridgeway, at ridgeway@stanford.edu, Department of Sociology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 120, Stanford, CA 94305, United States; Hazel Rose Markus, at hmarkus@stanford.edu, Department of Psychology, Stanford University, 450 Jane Stanford Way, Building 420, Stanford, CA 94305, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Cecilia L. Ridgeway^a and
Hazel Rose Markus^b

^aLucie Stern Professor in the Social Sciences, Emerita, at Stanford University, United States
^bDavis-Brack Professor in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, United States