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Status and Culture How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change

W. David Marx

"Subtly altered how I see the world." —Michelle Goldberg, All humans share a need to secure their social standing, and this universal motivation structures our behavior, forms our tastes, determines how we live, and ultimately shapes who we are. We can use status, then, to explain why some things b...

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Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

It was mentioned in the context of a timetable about how evaluations of certain trends change over time, using Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill as an example. The book, Status and Culture, explores how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion and constant change.

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So he has a timetable in there for how long it takes for something.

— Episode: "Toxically Benevolent" (w/ Matt & Bowen)

Episode: "Toxically Benevolent" (w/ Matt & Bowen)

It was mentioned in the context of a timetable about how evaluations of certain trends change over time, using Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill as an example. The book, Status and Culture, explores how our desire for social rank creates taste, identity, art, fashion and constant change.

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So he has a timetable in there for how long it takes for something.

And let's talk about it on the podcast. In Reader's Case, Publishers, Finalists, let's get your take on this. So this is the timetable that he has.

Well, I'll just say this is from the book Status and Culture by W. David Marks, How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion and Constant Change.

And actually kind of on face value, it kind of speaks to Mean Boys a little bit, too, because that book is a lot about how culture, about politics flows downhill from culture, like and just about like interesting things to think about as of late.

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