Status hierarchies are perceived unevenly and sharpen with community inculcation
Evidence
Note that this hierarchy does not have to be perceived the same way by all members of a group. While my informants roughly agreed on who was high and low status, there were significant degrees of disagreement. So to a certain extent, status is in the eye of the beholder. As one becomes inculcated into the community, one’s understanding of status will sharpen (as we see in the case study of Adam Jackson in Chapter 3). — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 885
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the book’s operative definition of status as subjectively perceived yet community-convergent.
- DEEPTHINKING: This subtle reframing — status as individually perceived but converging through inculcation — underlies much of status-signaling theory and resists quick summary.
- XREF: connects to: Status hierarchies can emerge purely from individuals’ belonging, distinctiveness, and esteem needs — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 855; Online communities reproduce status hierarchies that limit who can participate — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 173; Perceived impermeability and illegitimacy of status differences deepen low-status group identification. (+7 more)
Broader Connections
- Perceived impermeability and illegitimacy of status differences deepen low-status group identification.
#qualifies(0.80) - Online communities reproduce status hierarchies that limit who can participate
#exemplifies(0.78) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 173 - Perceived illegitimacy and impermeability drive low-status ingroup solidarity
#qualifies(0.78) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 974 - Status hierarchies can emerge purely from individuals’ belonging, distinctiveness, and esteem needs
#expands(0.75) — Roderick M. Kramer, Geoffrey J. Leonardelli, Robert W. Livingston, Social Cognition, Social Identity, and…, 855 - Contemplation access forms gated communities of attention divided by inequality
#exemplifies(0.72) — Jenny Odell, How to Do Nothing, 665