Comments on: Prestige, Status, and Culture http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/ The Sweet Release of Reason Tue, 22 May 2012 20:28:45 +0000 hourly 1 By: Charlie http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8153 Charlie Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:12:19 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8153 Hi, Your analogy of the guitar player is interesting, but I think that the answer aslo depends on culture. Please consider cars instead of guitars, for example. Someone who collects cars could be collecting them as status symbols, not because they are a great driver. Best wishes Charlie Hi,

Your analogy of the guitar player is interesting, but I think that the answer aslo depends on culture.

Please consider cars instead of guitars, for example. Someone who collects cars could be collecting them as status symbols, not because they are a great driver.

Best wishes

Charlie

]]> By: Charlie http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8154 Charlie Mon, 20 Nov 2006 11:12:00 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8154 Hi, Your analogy of the guitar player is interesting, but I think that the answer aslo depends on culture. Please consider cars instead of guitars, for example. Someone who collects cars could be collecting them as status symbols, not because they are a great driver. Best wishes Charlie Hi,

Your analogy of the guitar player is interesting, but I think that the answer aslo depends on culture.

Please consider cars instead of guitars, for example. Someone who collects cars could be collecting them as status symbols, not because they are a great driver.

Best wishes

Charlie

]]> By: Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » A Cold Compress for Status Fever http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8152 Will Wilkinson / The Fly Bottle » Blog Archive » A Cold Compress for Status Fever Tue, 05 Sep 2006 12:38:09 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2006/04/07/prestige-status-and-culture/#comment-8152 [...] I wrote a long post on this a while back. Check it out. And I encourage everyone interested in all the hullabaloo about relative position to read the paper I discuss there by  Joe Henrich and Franscisco Gil-White: “The Evolution of Prestige: freely conferred status as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission.” (Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 1-32). [...] [...] I wrote a long post on this a while back. Check it out. And I encourage everyone interested in all the hullabaloo about relative position to read the paper I discuss there by  Joe Henrich and Franscisco Gil-White: “The Evolution of Prestige: freely conferred status as a mechanism for enhancing the benefits of cultural transmission.” (Evolution and Human Behavior, 22, 1-32). [...]

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