Expressions of High Status

Jean-Pascal Daloz is a CNRS Research Professor at the University of Strasbourg and Faculty Fellow at the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. He previously held positions in several universities, including that of Oxford. From 2008–2018, he chaired the International Sociological Association’s Research Committee on Comparative Sociology. He has published 16 books so far.

• 1 Introduction.- Part I External Signs.- 2 Adornments.- 3 Residences.- 4 Vehicles.- 5 Food.- 6 Burials.- Part II Embodied Signs.- 7 Self-Confidence and Assertiveness.- 8 Physical Appearance.- 9 Distinguished Manners.- 10 Cultivation and Linguistic Competence.- Part III Vicarious Display.- 11 Relatives and Glamorous (Fe)male Company.- 12 Flaunting Connections.- 13 Servants.- 14 Artists.- 15 Animals.- Part IV Status-Related Interactions.- 16 Telling Bodily Attitudes.- 17 Precedence.- 18 Gift Exchange.- 19 Conclusion.- Bibliography.

“In many ways instructive, it will introduce readers to the diverse, sometimes obscure, unlikely, contrary and contradictory, means by which status orders are governed and stabilised.” (Alan Warde, Consumption and Society, Vol. 3 (2), 2024)