Before influencers and verified badges, social status lived in tiny online flexes. Millennials still laugh about these early ...

Silvia Bellezza is an Associate Professor of Business in Marketing at Columbia Business School. Her research focuses on status signaling in consumption. Whom do you hold in higher regard: Jimmy Carter ...

Forget a fancy car or multiple foreign holidays a year, having three children is fast becoming the ultimate status symbol. Many of the nation’s most beloved mothers have a triptych brood in tow, from ...

Our culture embodies mutually exclusive beliefs in tribalism and individual exceptionalism. Tribalism used to depend on family; over the past millennium, it increasingly has come to depend on wealth ...

People have always found ways to flaunt their social status and wealth. These days, it could be a high-end vehicle or a high-end purse. It was all about the largest television or the appropriate watch ...

Just like any other collective belief or cultural norm, status symbols change and evolve over time, characterizing financial comfort and stability in ways that make sense for newer generations of ...

Human beings are social creatures. Society comprises hierarchies and social structures that allow people to work together effectively and achieve more than they could on their own. It is no secret ...

Once confined to adolescent years, braces have undergone a remarkable transformation in social perception. As more adults opt for orthodontic treatment, these dental devices have evolved beyond their ...

While status symbols have almost always been characterized in a game of "having what others can't," focused on material goods and consumerism, recent shifts in the collective experience and perception ...

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