Eleven. Studies of “Profamily” Activists: “Status Politics” Revised and Revisited

This chapter use theories of status politics (conflicts as proxies for important debates over the deference paid to a particular group’s lifestyle) to show the importance of nineteenth-century suffragists’ own newspapers and magazines to the movement. The women who wrote for, edited, and published these outlets essentially invented and then celebrated at least four different versions of a new political woman and then proceeded to dramatize that new woman, showing how she named herself, dressed, dealt with her family, and interacted in the larger public sphere, and showing why she deserved the vote. The pre-Civil War suffrage periodicals essentially proposed a “sensible woman” while the postwar period saw competition between the “strong-minded” women aggressively promoted in the Revolution and the more moderate “responsible women” advocated by the Woman’s Journal. Later, the Woman’s Era dramatized an “earnest” new black woman.

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3. Intergenerational Conflict: Status Politics in the Conservative Camp

Losing Face ◽

10.1525/9780520344969-005 ◽

1990 ◽

pp. 39-58

Keyword(s):

Intergenerational Conflict ◽

Status Politics

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Identity, Role Conception, and Status Dilemma: A Socio-Psychological Account of China-U.S. Relations

China Quarterly of International Strategic Studies ◽

10.1142/s2377740019500180 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 05 (03) ◽

pp. 343-372

Author(s):

Ning Liao

Keyword(s):

Social Action ◽

The United States ◽

Chinese Foreign Policy ◽

Equal Treatment ◽

The Status ◽

Role Conceptions ◽

The One ◽

Chinese Diplomacy ◽

Status Politics ◽

International Status

This article examines the status politics in Chinese foreign policy and its implications on China-U.S. relations. The analysis of status recognition and the role it plays in Chinese diplomacy reveals the motivating factors behind China’s quest for respect in the international arena and the centrality of national identity in China’s status aspiration. Viewed from the socio-psychological perspective, China’s tenacious struggle to gain a prominent international status is a social action aimed at forging its identity security, whereby the Chinese “self” will interact on equal terms with the foreign “other.” Based on the argument, this paper compares Chinese and American role conceptions and dissects the status dilemma between the two powers by exploring the dynamics of disrespect in their status relations. The two nations’ distinctive self-role conceptions and their role expectations of the interacting parties have led to a widening gap between China’s international status that entitles it to equal treatment and the one accorded by the United States. The disquieting condition of this status dissonance has motivated Beijing to disrupt the asymmetric hierarchy wherein it used to exhibit deference to Washington. The effort of the established hegemon in upending the defiance of the status contestant has exacerbated the status dilemma, which has given rise to the current China-U.S. malaise.

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Status Politics and the Political Influences of Concealed Handgun License Demand in Texas

Sociological Quarterly ◽

10.1080/00380253.2020.1803157 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Trent Steidley ◽

Danielle Trujillo

Keyword(s):

The Political ◽

Political Influences ◽

Status Politics

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Moral authority and status in International Relations: Good states and the social dimension of status seeking

Review of International Studies ◽

10.1017/s0260210517000560 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 44 (3) ◽

pp. 526-546 ◽

Cited By ~ 29

Author(s):

William C. Wohlforth ◽

Benjamin de Carvalho ◽

Halvard Leira ◽

Iver B. Neumann

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Moral Authority ◽

Social Dimension ◽

Social Actors ◽

Middle Power ◽

The Social ◽

Status Seeking ◽

Positional Good ◽

Social Creativity ◽

Status Politics

AbstractWe develop scholarship on status in international politics by focusing on the social dimension of small and middle power status politics. This vantage opens a new window on the widely-discussed strategies social actors may use to maintain and enhance their status, showing how social creativity, mobility, and competition can all be system-supporting under some conditions. We extract lessons for other thorny issues in status research, notably questions concerning when, if ever, status is a good in itself; whether it must be a positional good; and how states measure it.

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