Social stratification refers to the structured hierarchy of classes that divides people by wealth, education, power, and ...

We've all experienced defeat at some point – losing a game, a potential new job, a debate. Now, a new study has found that ...

Columnist Francesco Salamone asks students to consider how their desire for higher social status impacts their decisions. Credit: Ana Glassman You and I are playing a subtle game. It congenitally ...

Social hierarchies are everywhere-think of high school dramas, where the athletes are portrayed as most popular, or large companies, where the CEO makes the important decisions.

How Banijay Asia stripped away dance and drama from Indian reality TV for a pure power-play experiment that became the country's most-watched show.

Few leadership positions in the U.S. government come with as many challenges as Commissioner of the Social Security Administration, the massive retirement benefits agency that has run into massive ...

In the mist-covered hills of Ooty and the famine-ravaged villages of Bengal, they speak of ghosts. They whisper of a Zamindar’s phantom haunting a grand manor and a shape-shifting shakchunni preying ...

A new study shows that boys are often shown harmful messages online about what it means to be a man, which can make them feel ...

While definitions of masculinity run the gamut from divine to deplorable, scientists argue that all men can be categorized in one of six archetypes of masculinity. To determine this social scale, ...