{"id":40668,"date":"2012-07-03T12:03:22","date_gmt":"2012-07-03T17:03:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40668"},"modified":"2013-11-08T04:04:13","modified_gmt":"2013-11-08T09:04:13","slug":"are-americans-aware-of-heightism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2012\/07\/03\/are-americans-aware-of-heightism\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Americans Aware of Heightism?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It seems so.<\/p>\n

According to a Gallup poll<\/a>, “Americans believe that one’s stature has a decided effect on a variety of important dimensions.”<\/p>\n

More people would prefer to be taller than shorter:<\/p>\n

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People think that taller people have a greater likelihood of getting respect at work, and even getting promoted:<\/p>\n

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Via Geoffrey Arnold, at The Social Complex<\/a>. \u00a0See also Arnold’s guest posts from The Social Complex introducing the concept of\u00a0heightism as a gendered prejudice<\/a> and discussing\u00a0heightism (and other icky stuff) at Hooters<\/a>.<\/p>\nLisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em>American Hookup<\/a>, a book about college sexual culture; a textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em>Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a>.\u00a0You can follow her on Twitter<\/a> and Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It seems so. According to a Gallup poll, “Americans believe that one’s stature has a decided effect on a variety of important dimensions.” More people would prefer to be taller than shorter: People think that taller people have a greater likelihood of getting respect at work, and even getting promoted:   Via Geoffrey Arnold, at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[218,55,2103,2098,12467,283,693,76],"class_list":["post-40668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bodies","tag-gender","tag-gender-bodies","tag-gender-prejudicediscrimination","tag-heightheightism","tag-prejudicediscrimination","tag-public-opinion","tag-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40668","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40668"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58312,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40668\/revisions\/58312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}