Dynamic status signaling: How foodies signal cosmopolitanism on Yelp
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Standard
Dynamic status signaling : How foodies signal cosmopolitanism on Yelp. / Herman, Andrew C.
In: Poetics, Vol. 90, 101592, 02.2022.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Harvard
APA
Vancouver
Author
Bibtex
}
RIS
TY - JOUR
T1 - Dynamic status signaling
T2 - How foodies signal cosmopolitanism on Yelp
AU - Herman, Andrew C.
PY - 2022/2
Y1 - 2022/2
N2 - Influenced by older work on high culture, researchers often look to the social closure that institutions can provide to explain how elites avoid having their status signaling overrun by imitators. In so doing our understanding of status signaling has been biased toward long-lasting social processes and relatively stable social situations, at the expense of more dynamic circumstances and behavior. This paper uses restaurant review data from Yelp to give evidence of dynamic status signals, constructed around rarity in real-time thanks to consumers’ perception of the market. Supported by this mechanism, these status signals that are fast to develop and fast to change indicate the need to enlarge our theories to accommodate more complex systems.
AB - Influenced by older work on high culture, researchers often look to the social closure that institutions can provide to explain how elites avoid having their status signaling overrun by imitators. In so doing our understanding of status signaling has been biased toward long-lasting social processes and relatively stable social situations, at the expense of more dynamic circumstances and behavior. This paper uses restaurant review data from Yelp to give evidence of dynamic status signals, constructed around rarity in real-time thanks to consumers’ perception of the market. Supported by this mechanism, these status signals that are fast to develop and fast to change indicate the need to enlarge our theories to accommodate more complex systems.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Status signals
KW - Food
KW - Cultural omnivores
KW - Cosmopolitans
KW - Cultural markets
U2 - 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101592
DO - 10.1016/j.poetic.2021.101592
M3 - Journal article
VL - 90
JO - Poetics
JF - Poetics
SN - 0304-422X
M1 - 101592
ER -
ID: 335618773