Fabien Accominotti was featured on the Russel Sage Foundation Journal Blog for his recent co-authored publication “The Architecture of Status Hierarchies: Variations in Structure and Why They Matter for Inequality.” The interview discusses the publications included in the RSF Journal of Social Science issue “Status: What It Is and Why It Matters.”
“The sheer fact that the hierarchy is presented as more precise makes the level of inequality between high and low-value actors increase. And more generally, the article shows that holding constant the value we give people, the greater the clarity, the verticality, and the rigidity of the status hierarchy they belong to the larger the gap in rewards between the incumbents of high versus low-status positions” Accominotti states.
Listen to the full interview here!