The democratization of the status game
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2166305 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aleksandrina Atanasova (0000-0001-9045-5073, Bayes Business School (Formerly Cass), University of London, London, UK, corresponding author), Fleura Bardhi (0000-0001-9278-6562, Bayes Business School (Formerly Cass), University of London, London, UK), G M Eckhardt (0000-0001-7856-0719, King's College London) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 325-334 |
| Publication date | 2024-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Consumption Markets & Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1025-3866 • E-ISSN: 1477-223X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/10253866.2024.2369090 |
| OpenAlex | W4400956288 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 39 |
Consumption has traditionally been a reliable indicator of one’s social status in society. In today’s marketplace, however, the sharing and digital economies are making signifiers of affluence and high culture more accessible than ever, and the markers that denote one’s position in the status game are becoming increasingly blurred. We posit that in an increasingly digitalized and platformized social and material world, the market changes and democratizes the status game. It emerges as a catalyst for adaptability, enabling more people than before to transcend or reshape embodied resources and emulate high status positions more easily. This does not mean that social class has lost its role; rather it puts into question what is considered a high-status possession, occupation or practice and propels the emergence of new cultural scripts that alter the rules of status signification. In this essay, we outline these dynamics and suggest directions for future research
Democracy · Democratization · Economic system · Economics · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Cultural Industries and Urban Development · Gender, Feminism, and Media · Law · Social and Cultural Dynamics
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Digital work
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Outline of a Theory of Practice
Masters of Craft
Social Acceleration
Masters of craft. Old jobs in the new urban economy
Sharing and neoliberal discourse
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Cultural Capital
The economy of attention
Trickle-Round Signals
Liquid Consumption
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Moral Habitus and Status Negotiation in a Marginalized Working-Class Neighborhood
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Liquid Relationship to Possessions
How Marketplace Performances Produce Interdependent Status Games and Contested Forms of Symbolic Capital
Social Class, Market Situation, and Consumers' Metaphors of (Dis)Empowerment
Man-of-Action Heroes
Toward a Theory of Consumer Choice as Sociohistorically Shaped Practical Experience
Fashion
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| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |