{"id":40769,"date":"2011-12-15T12:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T17:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=40769"},"modified":"2013-11-09T04:52:54","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T09:52:54","slug":"status-and-social-evaluative-threat-in-unequal-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/12\/15\/status-and-social-evaluative-threat-in-unequal-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Status and Social-Evaluative Threat in Unequal Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In an earlier post we reviewed research by epidemiologists\u00a0Richard Wilkinson<\/a> and\u00a0Kate Pickett<\/a> showing that\u00a0income inequality contributes to a whole host of negative outcomes<\/a>, including higher rates of mental illness, drug use, obesity, infant death, imprisonment, and interpersonal trust.<\/p>\n

In the four-minute video below, Kate Pickett argues that once societies develop the capacity to enable status-based consumption (as opposed to survival-oriented consumption), \u00a0status-consciousness among humans exacerbates inequality. \u00a0Meanwhile, being status-conscious in a highly unequal society creates stress, and all kinds of other negative outcomes, among those who are judged less-than.<\/p>\n

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See Dr. Pickett, also, on why raising the average national income in developed countries doesn’t make people happier or enable them to live longer<\/a>. And see more\u00a0about income inequality and national well-being at\u00a0Equality Trust<\/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":"

In an earlier post we reviewed research by epidemiologists\u00a0Richard Wilkinson and\u00a0Kate Pickett showing that\u00a0income inequality contributes to a whole host of negative outcomes, including higher rates of mental illness, drug use, obesity, infant death, imprisonment, and interpersonal trust. In the four-minute video below, Kate Pickett argues that once societies develop the capacity to enable status-based […]<\/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":[29,229,15,36,98,329,37],"class_list":["post-40769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-class","tag-consumption","tag-culture","tag-economics","tag-capitalism","tag-emotion","tag-social-psychology"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769","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=40769"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58571,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40769\/revisions\/58571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}