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Status Lenses: Mapping Hierarchy and Consensus in Status Beliefs

Lauren Valentino
RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences November 2022, 8 (7) 89-110; DOI: https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.7.05
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