Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... It’s a genre filled with status markers selling us on certain ideas, says Dominique J. Baker. A professor of education and public policy at the University of ...

The difference between wealthy people today and the upper middle class in the 90s is the wealth gap. In the 90s, more people could afford some of the basic status symbols they sought out in their ...

Most people assume reality is fixed—but a huge part of what you believe is shaped by language, culture, and social agreement. The value of money, status, “success,” and even identity isn’t ...

Psychologists often use categories to label people based on their personalities or individual characteristics with the goal of understanding their behavior more broadly. For example, Bob may be ...

Status comes in many forms, but the quickest shorthand for status on TV is wealth. The clothes. The real estate. The private jets and other markers of affluence. Early in the Amazon series “We Were ...