#  Russell Sage Foundation Status Session 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **April 7, 2023** 

 All day 

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 **Agenda:**

 **11:45:** Lunch available

 **12:00:**  Introduction: Michèle Lamont

 **12:05:** Framing the project: [Cecilia Ridgeway](https://sociology.stanford.edu/people/cecilia-ridgeway) (Stanford University)

 [The Significance of Status: What It Is and How It Shapes Inequality](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/1).

 **12:15-1:15: Session 1**

 [Status Lenses: Mapping Hierarchy and Consensus in Status Beliefs](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/89)

 [Lauren Valentino](https://sociology.osu.edu/people/valentino.60) (Ohio State University)

 [The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/87)

 [Michael Sauder](https://sociology.uiowa.edu/people/michael-sauder) (The University of Iowa), [Fabien Accominotti](http://www.fabienaccominotti.com/) (University of Wisconsin-Madison), [Freda Lynn](https://myweb.uiowa.edu/fblynn/) (The University of Iowa)

 [Status, Symbols, and Politics: A Theory of Symbolic Status Politics](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/50)

 [Tali Mendelberg](https://talim.scholar.princeton.edu/home) (Princeton)

 Q&A

 **1:15: Break**

 **1:30-2:30: Session 2**

 [Downplaying Themselves, Upholding Men’s Status: Women’s Deference to Men in Wealthy Families](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/112)

 [Annette Lareau ](https://sociology.sas.upenn.edu/people/annette-lareau)(University of Pennsylvania)

 [“But the Fellows Are Simply Diversity Hires!” How Organizational Contexts Influence Status Beliefs](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/7/172)

 [Sandra Portocarrero](https://sociology.columbia.edu/content/sandra-veronica-portocarrero) (Columbia University) ,

 [James T. Carter](https://www.jamestcarter.net/) (Columbia University)

 [Status and Development: How Social Hierarchy Undermines Well-Being](https://www.rsfjournal.org/content/8/6/28)

 [Poulomi Chakrabarti](https://sites.google.com/view/poulomichakrabarti/home) (Queen’s University)

 Q&A

 **2:30-3:00:** Discussion

 **3:00-3:30:** Recap and concluding comments, Cecilia Ridgeway (Stanford Univerisity) and [Michèle Lamont](https://sociology.fas.harvard.edu/people/michele-lamont)(Harvard University)

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