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Direct linkHuberman, Bernardo A.; Loch, Christoph H.; Onculer, Ayse – Social Psychology Quarterly, 2004
The striving for status has long been recognized in sociology and economics. Extensive theoretical arguments and empirical evidence propose that people view status as a sign of competence and pursue it as a means to achieve power and resources. A small literature, however, based on arguments from biology and evolutionary psychology, proposes that…
Descriptors: Status, Resources, Social Capital, Social Theories
