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

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper I examine relationships between multiple semiotic modes used to construct hierarchy, and I show the importance of going beyond ...

When you start a new job, it's normal to spend the first day working out who's who in the pecking order, information that will come in handy for making connections in the future. In an fMRI study, ...

Now, researchers for the first time have used brain imaging techniques to investigate how people respond to others of higher and lower status. The study suggests that our responses to these ...

Social contact networks are offered as a "language" for making social participation an aspect of social structure. An effort is made to set forth an orderly set of network characteristics-how they are ...

Can being uncertain of your social rank be bad for your health? New research suggests that low social rank isn’t as bad for your health as uncertain social rank. Having strong social connections has ...

When you start a new job, it's normal to spend the first day working out who's who in the pecking order, information that will come in handy for making useful connections in the future. In an fMRI ...