Social status is often associated with clothing and possessions. In this scene from rural 19th-century Chile, the foreman has a horse and high hat, while the inquilino (indebted laborer) does not.
A status symbol is a visible, external symbol of one's social position, an indicator of economic or social status.[1] Many luxury goods are often considered status symbols. Status symbol is also a sociological term – as part of social and sociological symbolic interactionism – relating to how individuals and groups interact and interpret various cultural symbols.[2]
^Cherrington, David J. (1994). Organizational Behavior. Allyn and Bacon. p. 384. ISBN 0-205-15550-2.
^The Three Sociological Paradigms[dead link], from The HCC-Southwest College Archived 2004-08-05 at the Wayback Machine, December 2008.
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bureaus and does not maintain a pre-set credit limit. It is considered a statussymbol among the affluent. In 1988, an article in The Wall Street Journal newspaper...
to a copyright holder whose work is infringed. Prior symbols indicating a work's copyright status are seen in Scottish almanacs of the 1670s; books included...
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curve. The higher prices of Veblen goods may make them desirable as a statussymbol in the practices of conspicuous consumption and conspicuous leisure...
recycling symbol. The public-domain status of the symbol has been challenged, but this challenge was unsuccessful owing to the wide use of the symbol. However...
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eventually became a cultural practice and an indicator of women's pride and statussymbol in having given birth to a son and thus she would "proudly bare her...
actress and Monégasque princess Grace Kelly. The bag is now an expensive statussymbol. The Kelly bag is a trapezium closed around the mouth with two horizontal...
Philippines. Gold dental appliances have gone in and out of popularity as a statussymbol for many years. Archeologists also found gold dental appliances from...
taken as concubines. Concubinage was also common in Meiji Japan as a statussymbol. Many Middle Eastern societies used concubinage for reproduction. The...
[hippodámeːa]), is a significant character in the Iliad. Her role as a statussymbol is at the heart of the dispute between Achilles and Agamemnon that initiates...
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added the symbols for normal and historical in the early 1990s. Vexillological symbols describe information on a flag's recognition status and design...
as lotus shoes. In late imperial China, bound feet were considered a statussymbol and a mark of feminine beauty. However, footbinding was a painful practice...
source of greater worth of positional goods is their desirability as a statussymbol, which usually results in them greatly exceeding the value of comparable...
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