Studies of politics are increasingly attempting to account for status. However, status remains
undertheorized in much of that research. This article sketches a theory of status in politics …

This article proposes an interactionist framework for the study of status stratification. This
framework returns the focus of status research to how status works, especially emphasizing …

GERHARD LENSKI introduced his conception of “status crystallization” into the sociologist's
lexicon a decade ago. 2 This concept has continued to interest sociologists since then and …

Status politics has been used by scholars to explain social protest movements, particularly
those that have been right‐wing in orientation. In recent years, some scholars have placed …

In virtually all societies, the social distinctions among people that are the most important for
organizing social relations (eg, gender, age, ethnicity, and occupation) are also status …

Status, a form of inequality based on esteem, respect, and honor, pervades social life but is
poorly understood and underestimated in terms of significance. We offer a new look at status …

As Weber (1922/1968) observed, status is a fundamental dimension of social inequality in
complex societies, along with wealth and power. Status inequality is based on evaluative …

Thanks to the pioneering scholarship of Thurman Arnold (1935), Harold Lasswell (1951),
Laswell, Lemer, and de Sola Pool (1952), Lasswell et al.(1965), and Murray Edelman (1964 …

Research on status beliefs demonstrates that judgments of status are not always universally
shared and are shaped by social structural factors. Building on this literature, I introduce the …

Comprises 16 essays stemming from the work of the sociology department at Stanford U. in
studying invariant social processes. As the study of these processes requires the …