Christian Schneickert
Biographic Data
| ID | 198802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian Schneickert |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Schneickert |
| SIGNATURE | SCHNEICKERT C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6005-2919 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 85 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Sozialer Raum, gesellschaftspolitische Lager und Polarisierung im Strukturwandel
Der Artikel leistet einen theoretischen und empirischen Beitrag zur Debatte um die Polarisierung von Gesellschaft und Politik in Deutschland. Aus der Perspektive der Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus sowie der darauf aufbauenden Weiterentwicklung der Theorie durch Michael Vester untersucht der Beitrag mit den Daten des European Social Survey 2002–2023 anhand von drei grundlegenden Konfliktdimensionen (Einstellungen zu Umverteilung, sexueller Diversität…
Which Life Makes You Happy? The Satisfaction Dividend of the Prosperous, the Exciting, the Cozy, and the Sustainable Life
This article provides fresh insights into the timeless question of what kind of life makes people happy and satisfied. We differentiate between four modern, popular life concepts in Western societies, each imparting a distinct ‘project character’ to life: the prosperous life, oriented towards socioeconomic status; the exciting life, focused on enriching experiences; the cozy life, centered around emotional comfort; and the sustainable life, aimed…
Status Concerns Drive Self‐Optimization
In recent years, many sociological, psychological, and epidemiological studies have focused on the syndrome of social inequality, status concerns, and the emergence of social problems in affluent capitalist societies. The basic assumption is that increasing competitive pressures stress people and cause them to seek any small advantage in the status competition. Against this background, this study examines the relationship between status seeking, …
Habitus, Globalization, and Cosmopolitanism
This paper critically examines conceptualizations of “transnational,” “global” or “cosmopolitan” habitus in migration, globalization and inequality research. We conceptualize habitus as a configuration of basic dispositions, using items from the Schwartz values battery, and compare the effect of habitual dispositions, class, and migration on cosmopolitan self-identification via country-specific multiple regression models, based on data from the W…
Status Seeking and Work-Family Conflicts
This paper takes a cross-national perspective and examines the association between the individual disposition to pursue wealth and success (status seeking) and work–family conflicts. We use data from the 2010 European Social Survey on more than 15,000 individuals from 26 countries who were of working age and living in families with children. The sample selection followed a stratified random sampling strategy and data were collected via computer-a…
Friends and foes of the green transition
Elitenzirkulation in Deutschland. Eine multisektorale Analyse auf Basis des Elitenmonitors 2018 und 2022
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht mit neuen und in dieser Form für Deutschland einmaligen Daten des Elitenmonitors die Zirkulation der deutschen Eliten zwischen 2018 und 2022. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen untersuchen Arbeiten die Elitenzirkulation bislang vor allem im Querschnitt, lediglich in einzelnen Sektoren (z. B. politischen oder wirtschaftlichen Eliten) oder im Kontext von Regimewechseln. Der vorliegende Beitrag hingegen untersucht die Veränd…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
On the practical rationality of the use of homeopathy in the German-speaking social space
This article examines the use of homeopathy from the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of social space and practice. Theoretically, we elaborate that the use of alternative medicine is subject to practical logics that cannot be reduced to and are incompatible with a scholastic rationalist logic. However, belief in scientific logic and evidence, like belief in alternative rationalities, is situated in the social space of society itself, which can b…
Tradition, status, experiences
About 30 years ago, an intense reception of Bourdieu's theory by two supposedly opposing milieu theories emerged in German sociology. While Gerhard Schulze critically opposed Bourdieu's class concept with his theory of the experience of society, Michael Vester further developed the concepts of social space, habitus, and (occupational) fields in the Bourdieusian tradition. This article reconstructs these two main theories of milieu research and sh…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
Aufstieg, Fall oder Wandel der Erlebnisorientierung? Eine Positionsbestimmung nach 30 Jahren „Erlebnisgesellschaft“
Vor dreißig Jahren veröffentlichte Gerhard Schulze die Theorie der Erlebnisgesellschaft, der zufolge die Menschen in wohlhabenden Ländern zunehmend nach Erlebnissen streben, um ihr Projekt des schönen Lebens zu gestalten. Angesichts neuerer Gegenwartsdiagnosen, die insgesamt ein sehr krisenhaftes Bild der Spätmoderne zeichnen, erscheint diese Idee heute eigentümlich aus der Zeit gefallen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erörtern wir in diesem Beitrag zwei…
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
Habitus in the context of transnationalization
Ongoing transnationalization processes have deeply affected contemporary societies. One important aspect of this transformation is that people's skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they think about, perceive and evaluate the world are altered. In order to capture these changes conceptually, the notion of transnational habitus has emerged, especially within migration and inequality studies. Reviewing this research literature, however, we…
Das Feld der Macht
Habitats of authenticity
The ecological crisis is a social crisis that undermines not just the relation between humans and the environment but the whole of human relations to themselves, to other humans, and to nonhumans. Addressing the paradox of unabated crisis escalation despite increasing widespread awareness and reflexivity, we argue that the crisis is in its core a crisis of capital(s) as metabolic relation(s). Its unfolding spurs the desire of particular social mi…
Lonely, Poor, and Ugly? How Cultural Practices and Forms of Capital Relate to Physical Unattractiveness
Physical attractiveness is increasingly framed as a meritocratic good that involves individual benefits, such as higher wages or success in the partner market. Investing in one's physical appearance is thereby seen as a means to increase one's human capital. While the positive effects are well documented, its counterpart, the dark side of physical appearance, has received much less attention from social science research. This article sheds light …
The Sociological Canon, Relations between Theories and Methods, and a Latent Political Structure
We discuss findings from a survey of sociology students in Germany and consequences for teaching. We focus on the de facto formation of a sociological canon, the relation between theories and methods, and effects of social and political characteristics on student’s scientific preferences. Our findings suggest that irrespective of an agreement of the sociological professionals on a common definition of a core, a de facto canon of theories and meth…
Eine Krise der sozialen Anerkennung? Ergebnisse einer Bevölkerungsbefragung zu Alltagserfahrungen der Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert erstmalig Ergebnisse zum Ausmaß, der Verteilung und den Folgen individuell erlebter Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland anhand von Daten aus der Innovationsstichprobe des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP-IS 2016). Zum einen adressieren wir damit einen grundlegenden Tatbestand des sozialen Lebens – persönliche Erfahrungen der Anerkennung und Abwertung im Alltag. Zum anderen schließen wir an aktuelle Gegenwa…
Konflikt, Autonomie und Orthodoxie. Professor*innen im sozialen Feld der Soziologie in Deutschland
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 182 - 210
Autonomie, Souveränität und Entfremdung
Christoph Henning: Theorien der Entfremdung zur Einführung, Hamburg 2015. Junius. 256 S. Hartmut Rosa: Beschleunigung und Entfremdung. Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit, Frankfurt am Main 2013. Suhrkamp. 154 S. Sean Sayers: Marx and Alienation. Essays on Hegelian themes, Basingstoke, Hampshire 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 209 S. Peter V. Zima: Entfremdung: Pathologien der postmodernen Gesellschaft, Tübingen 2014. Der Entfrem…
Sociocultural inequalities and status anxiety
The Spirit Level Theory developed by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claims that low-inequality societies are better societies because people are plagued less by status anxiety, and previous research has largely supported this idea. With the aim of broadening the knowledge about status anxiety, this article examines a crucial component of status anxiety – the feeling of not counting much in the eyes of others – within a multilevel framework fo…
Collective learning in social fields
As societies have become increasingly differentiated and discourses have turned increasingly heterogeneous, field theory and critical discourse studies (CDS) have become ever more popular in the social sciences. Responding to this development, we propose a synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and theories of collective learning inspired by Jürgen Habermas. Embedding this exploration within the framework of the discourse-historical approach…
Cultural Participation, Personality and Educational Inequalities
Various studies have examined the relevance of either cultural capital or personality traits for academic achievement. Integrating these two fields of research, this study compares cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality and their possible impact on the intergenerational transmission of educational inequalities in primary school. It also examines whether cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality subst…
Pierre Bourdieus Konzeption des Habitus
Sociocultural inequalities and status anxiety
The Spirit Level Theory developed by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claims that low-inequality societies are better societies because people are plagued less by status anxiety, and previous research has largely supported this idea. With the aim of broadening the knowledge about status anxiety, this article examines a crucial component of status anxiety – the feeling of not counting much in the eyes of others – within a multilevel framework fo…
Collective learning in social fields
As societies have become increasingly differentiated and discourses have turned increasingly heterogeneous, field theory and critical discourse studies (CDS) have become ever more popular in the social sciences. Responding to this development, we propose a synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and theories of collective learning inspired by Jürgen Habermas. Embedding this exploration within the framework of the discourse-historical approach…
Habitus in the context of transnationalization
Ongoing transnationalization processes have deeply affected contemporary societies. One important aspect of this transformation is that people's skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they think about, perceive and evaluate the world are altered. In order to capture these changes conceptually, the notion of transnational habitus has emerged, especially within migration and inequality studies. Reviewing this research literature, however, we…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
The Sociological Canon, Relations between Theories and Methods, and a Latent Political Structure
We discuss findings from a survey of sociology students in Germany and consequences for teaching. We focus on the de facto formation of a sociological canon, the relation between theories and methods, and effects of social and political characteristics on student’s scientific preferences. Our findings suggest that irrespective of an agreement of the sociological professionals on a common definition of a core, a de facto canon of theories and meth…
Eine Krise der sozialen Anerkennung? Ergebnisse einer Bevölkerungsbefragung zu Alltagserfahrungen der Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert erstmalig Ergebnisse zum Ausmaß, der Verteilung und den Folgen individuell erlebter Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland anhand von Daten aus der Innovationsstichprobe des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP-IS 2016). Zum einen adressieren wir damit einen grundlegenden Tatbestand des sozialen Lebens – persönliche Erfahrungen der Anerkennung und Abwertung im Alltag. Zum anderen schließen wir an aktuelle Gegenwa…
Aufstieg, Fall oder Wandel der Erlebnisorientierung? Eine Positionsbestimmung nach 30 Jahren „Erlebnisgesellschaft“
Vor dreißig Jahren veröffentlichte Gerhard Schulze die Theorie der Erlebnisgesellschaft, der zufolge die Menschen in wohlhabenden Ländern zunehmend nach Erlebnissen streben, um ihr Projekt des schönen Lebens zu gestalten. Angesichts neuerer Gegenwartsdiagnosen, die insgesamt ein sehr krisenhaftes Bild der Spätmoderne zeichnen, erscheint diese Idee heute eigentümlich aus der Zeit gefallen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erörtern wir in diesem Beitrag zwei…
Lonely, Poor, and Ugly? How Cultural Practices and Forms of Capital Relate to Physical Unattractiveness
Physical attractiveness is increasingly framed as a meritocratic good that involves individual benefits, such as higher wages or success in the partner market. Investing in one's physical appearance is thereby seen as a means to increase one's human capital. While the positive effects are well documented, its counterpart, the dark side of physical appearance, has received much less attention from social science research. This article sheds light …
Cultural Participation, Personality and Educational Inequalities
Various studies have examined the relevance of either cultural capital or personality traits for academic achievement. Integrating these two fields of research, this study compares cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality and their possible impact on the intergenerational transmission of educational inequalities in primary school. It also examines whether cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality subst…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
On the practical rationality of the use of homeopathy in the German-speaking social space
This article examines the use of homeopathy from the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of social space and practice. Theoretically, we elaborate that the use of alternative medicine is subject to practical logics that cannot be reduced to and are incompatible with a scholastic rationalist logic. However, belief in scientific logic and evidence, like belief in alternative rationalities, is situated in the social space of society itself, which can b…
Habitats of authenticity
The ecological crisis is a social crisis that undermines not just the relation between humans and the environment but the whole of human relations to themselves, to other humans, and to nonhumans. Addressing the paradox of unabated crisis escalation despite increasing widespread awareness and reflexivity, we argue that the crisis is in its core a crisis of capital(s) as metabolic relation(s). Its unfolding spurs the desire of particular social mi…
Studentische Hilfskräfte im deutschen Bildungswesen
Studentische Hilfskräfte im deutschen Bildungswesen
Pierre Bourdieus Konzeption des Habitus
Collective learning in social fields
As societies have become increasingly differentiated and discourses have turned increasingly heterogeneous, field theory and critical discourse studies (CDS) have become ever more popular in the social sciences. Responding to this development, we propose a synthesis of Pierre Bourdieu’s field theory and theories of collective learning inspired by Jürgen Habermas. Embedding this exploration within the framework of the discourse-historical approach…
Cultural Participation, Personality and Educational Inequalities
Various studies have examined the relevance of either cultural capital or personality traits for academic achievement. Integrating these two fields of research, this study compares cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality and their possible impact on the intergenerational transmission of educational inequalities in primary school. It also examines whether cultural participation in 'highbrow activities' and personality subst…
Autonomie, Souveränität und Entfremdung
Christoph Henning: Theorien der Entfremdung zur Einführung, Hamburg 2015. Junius. 256 S. Hartmut Rosa: Beschleunigung und Entfremdung. Entwurf einer kritischen Theorie spätmoderner Zeitlichkeit, Frankfurt am Main 2013. Suhrkamp. 154 S. Sean Sayers: Marx and Alienation. Essays on Hegelian themes, Basingstoke, Hampshire 2011. Palgrave Macmillan. 209 S. Peter V. Zima: Entfremdung: Pathologien der postmodernen Gesellschaft, Tübingen 2014. Der Entfrem…
Sociocultural inequalities and status anxiety
The Spirit Level Theory developed by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett claims that low-inequality societies are better societies because people are plagued less by status anxiety, and previous research has largely supported this idea. With the aim of broadening the knowledge about status anxiety, this article examines a crucial component of status anxiety – the feeling of not counting much in the eyes of others – within a multilevel framework fo…
Konflikt, Autonomie und Orthodoxie. Professor*innen im sozialen Feld der Soziologie in Deutschland
SozW Soziale Welt , Seite 182 - 210
The Sociological Canon, Relations between Theories and Methods, and a Latent Political Structure
We discuss findings from a survey of sociology students in Germany and consequences for teaching. We focus on the de facto formation of a sociological canon, the relation between theories and methods, and effects of social and political characteristics on student’s scientific preferences. Our findings suggest that irrespective of an agreement of the sociological professionals on a common definition of a core, a de facto canon of theories and meth…
Eine Krise der sozialen Anerkennung? Ergebnisse einer Bevölkerungsbefragung zu Alltagserfahrungen der Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland
Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert erstmalig Ergebnisse zum Ausmaß, der Verteilung und den Folgen individuell erlebter Wert- und Geringschätzung in Deutschland anhand von Daten aus der Innovationsstichprobe des Sozio-oekonomischen Panels (SOEP-IS 2016). Zum einen adressieren wir damit einen grundlegenden Tatbestand des sozialen Lebens – persönliche Erfahrungen der Anerkennung und Abwertung im Alltag. Zum anderen schließen wir an aktuelle Gegenwa…
Das Feld der Macht
Habitats of authenticity
The ecological crisis is a social crisis that undermines not just the relation between humans and the environment but the whole of human relations to themselves, to other humans, and to nonhumans. Addressing the paradox of unabated crisis escalation despite increasing widespread awareness and reflexivity, we argue that the crisis is in its core a crisis of capital(s) as metabolic relation(s). Its unfolding spurs the desire of particular social mi…
Lonely, Poor, and Ugly? How Cultural Practices and Forms of Capital Relate to Physical Unattractiveness
Physical attractiveness is increasingly framed as a meritocratic good that involves individual benefits, such as higher wages or success in the partner market. Investing in one's physical appearance is thereby seen as a means to increase one's human capital. While the positive effects are well documented, its counterpart, the dark side of physical appearance, has received much less attention from social science research. This article sheds light …
Who values status seeking? A cross-European comparison of social gradients and societal conditions
This article investigates for European societies the contextual conditions and social stratification of status seeking, defined as the desire to increase one’s rank in the social hierarchy and thereby to gain prestige. We explore diverging assumptions about (a) the level of status seeking across societies and (b) the social gradient of status seeking within them, derived from three prominent sociological theories: the income inequality thesis sen…
Habitus in the context of transnationalization
Ongoing transnationalization processes have deeply affected contemporary societies. One important aspect of this transformation is that people's skills and dispositions change, thus the ways they think about, perceive and evaluate the world are altered. In order to capture these changes conceptually, the notion of transnational habitus has emerged, especially within migration and inequality studies. Reviewing this research literature, however, we…
Aufstieg, Fall oder Wandel der Erlebnisorientierung? Eine Positionsbestimmung nach 30 Jahren „Erlebnisgesellschaft“
Vor dreißig Jahren veröffentlichte Gerhard Schulze die Theorie der Erlebnisgesellschaft, der zufolge die Menschen in wohlhabenden Ländern zunehmend nach Erlebnissen streben, um ihr Projekt des schönen Lebens zu gestalten. Angesichts neuerer Gegenwartsdiagnosen, die insgesamt ein sehr krisenhaftes Bild der Spätmoderne zeichnen, erscheint diese Idee heute eigentümlich aus der Zeit gefallen. Vor diesem Hintergrund erörtern wir in diesem Beitrag zwei…
Europeans Seek Exciting Experiences More Than Status
This article relates the lively debate about inequality-induced status concerns in affluent societies to the broader theoretical perspective on changing existential dispositions in modern society, which we reconstruct from the sociological theories of David Riesman, Gerhard Schulze and Ronald Inglehart. We conceptualise experience seeking - aspiring to an enjoyable life - alongside status seeking - aspiring to a successful life - as a presumably …
Status Seeking and Work-Family Conflicts
This paper takes a cross-national perspective and examines the association between the individual disposition to pursue wealth and success (status seeking) and work–family conflicts. We use data from the 2010 European Social Survey on more than 15,000 individuals from 26 countries who were of working age and living in families with children. The sample selection followed a stratified random sampling strategy and data were collected via computer-a…
Friends and foes of the green transition
Elitenzirkulation in Deutschland. Eine multisektorale Analyse auf Basis des Elitenmonitors 2018 und 2022
Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht mit neuen und in dieser Form für Deutschland einmaligen Daten des Elitenmonitors die Zirkulation der deutschen Eliten zwischen 2018 und 2022. Bis auf wenige Ausnahmen untersuchen Arbeiten die Elitenzirkulation bislang vor allem im Querschnitt, lediglich in einzelnen Sektoren (z. B. politischen oder wirtschaftlichen Eliten) oder im Kontext von Regimewechseln. Der vorliegende Beitrag hingegen untersucht die Veränd…
Varieties of Economic Elites? Preliminary Results From the World Elite Database (WED)
The strategies, decisions and beliefs of those who occupy prominent positions of economic power have influence on very large corporations and the markets they dominate, on vast amounts of economic resources, and on the rules of the game. However, the sociology of elites faces a dual challenge: divergent conceptualisations of what can be considered as a position of economic power and internationally incompatible sources of information hinder compa…
On the practical rationality of the use of homeopathy in the German-speaking social space
This article examines the use of homeopathy from the perspective of Bourdieu's theory of social space and practice. Theoretically, we elaborate that the use of alternative medicine is subject to practical logics that cannot be reduced to and are incompatible with a scholastic rationalist logic. However, belief in scientific logic and evidence, like belief in alternative rationalities, is situated in the social space of society itself, which can b…
Tradition, status, experiences
About 30 years ago, an intense reception of Bourdieu's theory by two supposedly opposing milieu theories emerged in German sociology. While Gerhard Schulze critically opposed Bourdieu's class concept with his theory of the experience of society, Michael Vester further developed the concepts of social space, habitus, and (occupational) fields in the Bourdieusian tradition. This article reconstructs these two main theories of milieu research and sh…
Sozialer Raum, gesellschaftspolitische Lager und Polarisierung im Strukturwandel
Der Artikel leistet einen theoretischen und empirischen Beitrag zur Debatte um die Polarisierung von Gesellschaft und Politik in Deutschland. Aus der Perspektive der Soziologie Pierre Bourdieus sowie der darauf aufbauenden Weiterentwicklung der Theorie durch Michael Vester untersucht der Beitrag mit den Daten des European Social Survey 2002–2023 anhand von drei grundlegenden Konfliktdimensionen (Einstellungen zu Umverteilung, sexueller Diversität…
Which Life Makes You Happy? The Satisfaction Dividend of the Prosperous, the Exciting, the Cozy, and the Sustainable Life
This article provides fresh insights into the timeless question of what kind of life makes people happy and satisfied. We differentiate between four modern, popular life concepts in Western societies, each imparting a distinct ‘project character’ to life: the prosperous life, oriented towards socioeconomic status; the exciting life, focused on enriching experiences; the cozy life, centered around emotional comfort; and the sustainable life, aimed…
Status Concerns Drive Self‐Optimization
In recent years, many sociological, psychological, and epidemiological studies have focused on the syndrome of social inequality, status concerns, and the emergence of social problems in affluent capitalist societies. The basic assumption is that increasing competitive pressures stress people and cause them to seek any small advantage in the status competition. Against this background, this study examines the relationship between status seeking, …
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