Dynamics of Social Status
Stewart, Daniel There exists in the literature on social status a
tension between the forces that sort members of a
community into differing social strata and the
forces that constrain membership in relatively
stable status orders. This study conducts a primary
investigation into the manner in which social forces
exert pressures that initially shape and define an
actor's status, but eventually constrain an actor's
movement in a status ordering. The re...