Academy Awards Speeches Reflect Social Status, Cinematic Roles, and Winning Expectations

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (3) ◽  
pp. 376-387 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Markowitz
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Status ◽  
High Status ◽  
Academy Awards ◽  
Post Hoc Analysis ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Hoc

An analysis of Academy Awards acceptance speeches revealed that social status is indicated through pronouns. Speeches from high status movie directors contained fewer self-references than relatively low status actors. Directors also communicated analytically compared with actors, who told stories and communicated narratively. A post hoc analysis revealed that unexpected award winners communicated more positively than those who were expected to win. The analyses emphasize the importance of replications in the social sciences and extending social and psychological phenomena to new settings.

College Students' Perceptions of the Purposes of Sports

1996 ◽  
Vol 82 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mel E. Finkenberg ◽  
F. Michael Moode
Keyword(s):  
Social Status ◽  
College Women ◽  
Intercollegiate Athletics ◽  
Sport Participation ◽  
College Men ◽  
Self Esteem ◽  
High Status ◽  
Good Citizen ◽  
Career Opportunities ◽  
Post Hoc

To examine perceptions of the desirable purpose of athletics by men and women 162 college men, 84 of whom participated in intercollegiate athletics, and 190 college women, 81 of whom participated in intercollegiate athletics, were administered the Purpose of Sport Questionnaire. Applying a two-way multivariate analysis of variance to their mean responses gender was significant. Post hoc analysis indicated that men believed enhanced competitiveness, social status, and high-status career opportunities to be more important purposes of sport participation than did women. Participants in intercollegiate athletics had significantly higher perceptions of enhanced competitiveness, social status, and high-status career opportunities as more important purposes of sport participation than nonparticipants. However, nonparticipants in intercollegiate athletics believed that acquisition of attributes that make one a good citizen and enhancement of self-esteem were more important purposes of sport participation.

Strengthening post-hoc analysis of community-based fisheries management through the social-ecological systems framework

Marine Policy ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 82 ◽  
pp. 50-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jessica Blythe ◽  
Philippa Cohen ◽  
Hampus Eriksson ◽  
Joshua Cinner ◽  
Delvene Boso ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fisheries Management ◽  
Ecological Systems ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Post Hoc Analysis ◽  
Social Ecological Systems ◽  
Social Ecological ◽  
The Social ◽  
Post Hoc ◽  
Systems Framework

scholarly journals New dynamics of social status and distinction

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-102 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giana M. Eckhardt ◽  
Fleura Bardhi
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Social Status ◽  
Conspicuous Consumption ◽  
Conceptual Space ◽  
Status Signaling ◽  
The Social ◽  
Urban Consumption

We explore emerging dynamics of social status and distinction in liquid consumption. The new logic of distinction is having the flexibility to embrace and adopt new identity positions, projects, and possibilities and the ability to attract attention. The importance of flexibility and attention as resources emerged from the social sciences literature in the domains of digital, access based, and urban consumption as being the most important for achieving distinction in the contemporary marketplace. We then conceptually reexamine conspicuous consumption and taste and show that status signaling now relies upon inconspicuousness, non-ownership including experiences, and authenticity based on knowledge and craftsmanship, all of which are difficult to emulate. Our contribution lies in integrating disparate literature on social status and consumption within one conceptual space. We also build upon the concept of liquid consumption by outlining exactly how liquidity affects status and distinction, an area which has not been explored to date.

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.

The Evolution of an Idea

2020 ◽  
pp. 29-47
Author(s):  
Dominic D. P. Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Evolutionary Biology ◽  
Cognitive Biases ◽  
Evolutionary Approach ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
Selective Pressures ◽  
The Social ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Brain

This chapter considers how and why international relations might benefit from an evolutionary approach. It explains the evolutionary biology's long history of misunderstanding and resistance in the social sciences since the “sociobiology” debate of the 1970s. It also reviews how the natural and social sciences have both moved on since the 1970s, including the promise for a future of mutual collaboration on strategic instincts. The chapter focuses on evolutionary biology to understand the origins and functions of cognitive biases and comprehend the selective pressures that shaped the brain in the first place. It addresses the question of whether psychological phenomena originate from nature or nurture.

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.

Behaviourism in the social sciences

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rom Harre
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Psychological Processes ◽  
Human Beings ◽  
Psychological Phenomena ◽  
The Social ◽  
Dependent Variables ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Individual ◽  
Direct Reflection

Classical behaviourism has had almost no direct reflection in the social sciences, in that there has never been a behaviourist social psychology or sociology. However, various features of the cluster of behaviourist doctrines have been widespread in the human sciences. Behaviourism as it developed from its roots in the proposals of Watson, and in its transformation by Skinner, had two influential aspects, one metaphysical and the other methodological. The metaphysics of behaviourism was positivistic. It was hostile to theory, favouring a psychology the subject matter of which was limited to stimuli and responses. It was hospitable to the conception of causation as regular concomitance of events, rejecting any generative or agent causal concepts. The methodology of behaviourism was hospitable to simple experimental techniques of inquiry, seeking statistical relations between independent and dependent variables. It was hostile to descriptions of human action that incorporated the intentions of the actor, favouring a laconic vocabulary of neologisms. Metaphysically and methodologically behaviourism favoured the individual as the locus of psychological phenomena. But, in practice, the use of statistical analyses of data abstracted psychological processes from real human beings leaving only simplified automata in their place.

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