num_pages: 368
description: The book lays out how individuals in pursuit of status trigger the cultural mechanisms behind taste identity fashion art class subcultures retro/canon and the current state of Internet culture.If Ametora was a specific case study of how culture happens and how trends form this new book is a deep look into the universal principles of cultural change  all with status as the motor.
language: English
title: Status and Culture: How Our Desire for Social Rank Creates Taste, Identity, Art, Fashion, and Constant Change
publisher: Viking