Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
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Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
When we shift our focus from an individual to their network of relationships, we start asking different questions: how the communities an individual belongs are structured, what is their dynamics, how the influence spreads within them, who are the most active and/or valuable members. This shift reveals not our inferred, but our actual, taste.
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