Status Seekers in India: A sociological study of the neo-Buddhist movement

1979 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Bopegamage
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
High Status ◽  
Sociological Study ◽  
Good Education ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Seeking ◽  
Caste Groups ◽  
The Doors

In every stratified society there are groups of people, mainly from the lower strata, who aspire to rise in social status. In order to realize their aspirations they adopt various means: some change their occupation for one carrying more prestige; some give their children a good education and try to place them in positions superior to their own; some emulate the behaviour and style of life of those whose higher status they aspire to reach; some try to gain admittance to the social circles mostly frequented by high-status people; some change their residence and some surround themselves with status symbols hoping that they will influence the ‘raters’ appraising them. For this process which goes on among various low-caste groups in India, Srinivas, an Indian sociologist, coined a separate term, ‘sanskritization’. With the opening of the doors by many under-developed societies for the introduction of modern technology and industrialization, status seeking has become one of the preoccupations of millions of people.

scholarly journals SOCIAL VALUE OF THE ELDER PUMI MINORITY IN CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. S723-S723
Author(s):  
Meng ran Gao
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Minority Groups ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Individual Development ◽  
High Status ◽  
Religious Activities ◽  
Systematic Analysis ◽  
Observation Methods ◽  
The Social ◽  
Group Members

Abstract Social status of the elderly nowadays declines rapidly in China. As anthropologist Margaret Mead considered, post-figurative culture leading in contemporary society and the source of knowledge are from youth. The value of the elderly has been overlooked. However, in Pumi, one of the smallest ethnic minority groups in northwestern Yunnan Province of China, it is common that senior residents have high social status. This study examines the social values the Pumi elderly have by systematic analysis and participation observation methods. Based on data collected in a Pumi village during a 6-month fieldtrip, we conclude that Pumi elderly enjoy a high status in the community. They occupy core positions in all important ceremonies, such as religious activities and other daily activities including hospice. Factors behind the special old-age care phenomenon are Pumi’s history and its culture. The special culture has united the group members together and enhanced individual development with community social capital. It is clear that respecting elderly does not only contribute the transformation of ethnical knowledge but also enhance community cohesiveness. Evaluating the role of the elderly should not only from economic perspective, but also from the holistic perspective of social culture, so as to reconsider the importance of the elderly to our society.

scholarly journals Social status gates social attention in humans

2011 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-452 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Dalmaso ◽  
Giulia Pavan ◽  
Luigi Castelli ◽  
Giovanni Galfano
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Factors ◽  
Social Attention ◽  
High Status ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Face ◽  
Curriculum Vitae ◽  
Gaze Cuing ◽  
Specific Identity

Humans tend to shift attention in response to the averted gaze of a face they are fixating, a phenomenon known as gaze cuing. In the present paper, we aimed to address whether the social status of the cuing face modulates this phenomenon. Participants were asked to look at the faces of 16 individuals and read fictive curriculum vitae associated with each of them that could describe the person as having a high or low social status. The association between each specific face and either high or low social status was counterbalanced between participants. The same faces were then used as stimuli in a gaze-cuing task. The results showed a greater gaze-cuing effect for high-status faces than for low-status faces, independently of the specific identity of the face. These findings confirm previous evidence regarding the important role of social factors in shaping social attention and show that a modulation of gaze cuing can be observed even when knowledge about social status is acquired through episodic learning.

When Do the Poor Vote for the Right Wing and Why: Status Hierarchy and Vote Choice in the Indian States

2018 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pavithra Suryanarayan
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
High Status ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Indian States ◽  
The Poor ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
Status Inequality ◽  
The Right ◽  
Lower Castes

What explains the popularity of right-wing parties among the poor? This article argues that in hierarchical societies with high social-status inequality, cross-class coalitions can emerge among high-status voters if they believe their social status is under threat. I demonstrate this in the context of the Indian states by exploiting an announcement by the Government of India in 1990 to implement affirmative action for lower castes—an intervention that threatened to weaken the social status of upper caste Brahmans. Using unique data from the 1931 census, this article shows that areas where Brahmans were more dominant in the 1930s experienced a higher surge in right-wing voting after this announcement than other areas. Using survey data, I find that both wealthy and poor Brahmans voted for the right wing where Brahmans were dominant in 1931. The article shows how concerns about social status may make the poor open to appeals by antiredistribution parties.

scholarly journals Competence-based social status and implicit preference modulate the ability to coordinate during a joint grasping task

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Boukarras ◽  
Vanessa Era ◽  
Salvatore Maria Aglioti ◽  
Matteo Candidi
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Interaction Partner ◽  
Social Perceptions ◽  
High Status ◽  
Start Time ◽  
Middle Position ◽  
The Social

AbstractStudies indicate that social status influences people’s social perceptions. Less information is available about whether induced social status influences dyadic coordination during motor interactions. To explore this issue, we designed a study in which two confederates obtained high or low competence-based status by playing a game together with the participant, while the participant always occupied the middle position of the hierarchy. Following this status-inducing phase, participants were engaged in a joint grasping task with the high- and low-status confederates in different sessions while behavioural (i.e., interpersonal asynchrony and movement start time) indexes were measured. Participants’ performance in the task (i.e., level of interpersonal asynchrony) when interacting with the low-status partner was modulated by their preference for him. The lower participants’ preference for a low- relative to a high-status confederate, the worse participants’ performance when interacting with the low-status confederate. Our results show that participants’ performance during motor interactions changes according to the social status of the interaction partner.

scholarly journals Preferencia y popularidad: patrones diferenciales por género en los correlatos del alto estatus

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 41
Author(s):  
Irene Jiménez-Lagares ◽  
Victoria Muñoz Tinoco ◽  
Tamara García ◽  
Carolina Florindo
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Relational Structure ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
High Status ◽  
Perceived Popularity ◽  
The Social

Resumen: Este trabajo investiga las diferencias de género en dos dimensiones del estatus social en el grupo, la preferencia social y la popularidad percibida, en una muestra de 274 adolescentes de 11 aulas de 3º y 4º de la ESO (119 chicos, 155 chicas) de dos centros de la provincia de Sevilla. En primer lugar, se ponen en relación las dos dimensiones de estatus con diversos atributos personales; en segundo lugar, se analizan las diferencias de género asociadas a esta estructura relacional. Los resultados muestran patrones de correlación que diferencian la preferencia social y la popularidad, así como patrones correlaciónales diferentes por género para cada una de las dimensiones analizadas. Preference and popularity: differential patterns by gender in the correlates of high status Abstract: This study explores gender differences in two dimensions of social status in the group, social preference and perceived popularity in a sample of 274 adolescents from 11 classes of 3 and 4 of the ESO (119 boys, 155 girls) from two schools in the province of Seville. First, put on the two dimensions of status with various personal attributes, and secondly, we analyze gender differences associated with the relational structure. The results show correlation patterns that differentiate the social preference and popularity, as well as different correlational patterns by gender for each of the dimensions analyzed.

The Legacy of Disadvantaged Origins: Blocked Social Mobility of Descendants of Nobi Great-Grandfathers in Korea (1765–1894)

Social Forces ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 98 (2) ◽  
pp. 677-701 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hyunjoon Park ◽  
Kuentae Kim
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Mobility ◽  
Upward Mobility ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
High Status ◽  
Adult Males ◽  
Multiple Generations ◽  
System A ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government

AbstractDespite the emerging literature on multigenerational stratification beyond two-generation models, our understanding of how disadvantages are transmitted over multiple generations at the bottom of the socioeconomic hierarchy is limited, with the lack of data on the extremely disadvantaged. We fill this research gap by investigating the legacy of the nobi system, a system by which individuals were treated as property and owned by the government or private individuals, upon social mobility across four generations. The formal abolition of the nobi system in 1801 provides an opportunity to assess the extent to which nobi great-grandfathers still mattered for great-grandsons’ upward mobility, more than six decades after the dismantling of the system. Korean household registers, which were compiled every three years during 1765–1894 in two villages on Jeju Island and incorporated a variety of individual demographic and social status information, allow us to link families across generations. We identify the social status of adult males recorded in 1864–94 registers as well as that of their fathers, grandfathers, and great-grandfathers. Logistic regression results show that the odds of attaining high status were substantially lower for adult males whose great-grandfathers were nobis than for those whose great-grandfathers held high- or middle-status positions, even after controlling for the social statuses of fathers and grandfathers. Despite the abolition of the nobi system and the rapid expansion of high-status positions throughout the nineteenth century, the upward mobility of descendants of nobi great-grandfathers was considerably restricted, revealing the continuity of disadvantages over multiple generations.

High-Status Pro-Environmental Behaviors: Costly, Effortful, and Visible

2019 ◽  
pp. 001391651988277 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hannah V. Uren ◽  
Lynne D. Roberts ◽  
Peta L. Dzidic ◽  
Zoe Leviston
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
High Status ◽  
Environmental Behaviors ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
The Social ◽  
Perceived Social Status ◽  
Insight Into

Diffusion of pro-environmental behaviors (PEBs) is known to be influenced by the perceived social status of those behaviors, but little is known about what gives PEBs social status. A sample of Australian residents ( N = 601) were asked to rate the social status of 16 PEBs and report their self and public environmental identities. Environmental identities accounted for 18% to 19% of the variance in social status ratings. Efficiency behaviors were perceived as conveying the greatest social status, and activism behaviors the least. Visibility, cost, and effort also predicted perceived social status. Short-answer responses indicated the social status ratings of PEBs were also dependent on the perceived environmental motivations for performing those behaviors. Understanding which PEBs are seen as high status provides insight into PEBs that may be easiest to promote and sheds light on the broader social structures that influence social status perceptions.

Climbing down the ladder makes you play it safe

2017 ◽  
Vol 51 (5/6) ◽  
pp. 946-959 ◽  
Author(s):  
Youjae Yi ◽  
Seo Young Kim ◽  
Jae Won Hwang
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Purchase Intentions ◽  
High Status ◽  
Content Type ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Status ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Socially Excluded ◽  
Practical Implications

Purpose This study aims to examine how social exclusion and the social status of a rejecter affect consumers’ purchase intentions toward ordinary products. Design/methodology/approach Three experiments were conducted to test the hypotheses. Findings The status of a rejecter, whether high or low, had a significant influence on individuals’ evaluations of ordinary products. Results showed that individuals who were rejected by a low status source had higher purchase intentions toward the ordinary (vs unique) products compared to those who were rejected by a high status source due to threatened self-concept. Practical implications With the increased number of lonely consumers in the market today, firms should pay closer attention to the behavioral patterns of consumers who are socially excluded. In addition, firms should be aware that consumers’ purchase intentions vary depending on the sources of social exclusion. Originality/value This paper addresses the significant impact of sources of social exclusion on consumers’ evaluation of ordinary products. Moreover, this study focuses on a relatively neglected definition of social status, namely, the sociometric status, to fill the gap in the social status literature.

Psychological Correlates of Speech Characteristics: on Sounding “Disadvantaged”

1970 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 472-488 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frederick Williams
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
White Teachers ◽  
High Status ◽  
Prediction Equations ◽  
School Teachers ◽  
White Children ◽  
Speech Characteristics ◽  
Psychological Correlates ◽  
Socioeconomic Index ◽  
The Social

Grade school teachers tended to differentiate the speech samples of children along two gross and relatively independent dimensions tentatively labeled “confidence-eagerness” and “ethnicity-nonstandardness.” Specific ratings of a child’s social status could be interpreted relative to this two-dimensional judgmental model. Moreover, based on measured characteristics of the speech samples, it was possible to develop interpretable prediction equations for variations in the social status ratings. Judgments of social status coincided with an earlier assigned socioeconomic index far more so for Negro than for white children. This prevailed generally with white and Negro teachers, sex of child, and the child’s speech topic. Although judgmental dimensions and prediction equations were roughly similar for Negro and white teachers, differences pointed to more dependence between ratings of race and status on the part of white teachers. When rating a child as high status, the white teachers had a greater tendency to identify him as being white, even if the child himself were Negro.

scholarly journals Features of Social Status Perception in the Youth and Student Community

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 108-118
Author(s):  
S.V. Fedotova
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Group Structure ◽  
Educational Process ◽  
High Status ◽  
Student Community ◽  
The Social ◽  
Status Assessment ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual

The article presents socio-psychological analysis of the phenomenon of social status, which is not seen as a sociological category, but as a component of the image of the object of learning. The author hypothesized that social status defined by another person depends on a number of the social object indicators (gender, age and socio-demographic criteria) and the characteristics of the subject of learning (gender, age, job, self-evaluations on various parameters). The study involved 141 people (83 female, 58 male, aged 18 to 30 years, mean=23). Methodological tools were the method of questionnaires and interviews with stimulus material. The author identified the components of the social status phenomenon and characteristics of the object and the subject of learning that are important for determining the position of the individual in society. Features of the social status assessment in the original perception were determined. The obtained data can be used in the educational process for determining group structure in the students of higher educational institutions, high-status and low-status members, as well as for understanding the value structures and important components in the social life of young people.

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