Handbook of Social Status Correlates

Table of Contents

1. Conceptualizing and Measuring Social Status
2. Demographic Factors
3. Family and Peer Factors
4. Personality and Behavioral Factors
5. Attitudes, Beliefs, and Preferences
6. Cognitive and Intellectual Factors
7. Mental Health and Illnesses
8. Physical Health and Illnesses
9. Biological Factors
10. Epilogue

Authors

Lee Ellis Consulting Research Author, California, USA. Lee Ellis earned his PhD from Florida State University in 1982. For most of his teaching career, he was professor of sociology at Minot State University in North Dakota. After retiring from MSU in 2008, Dr. Ellis accepted a two-year visiting professorship at the University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he conducted research. Now semi-retired, he continues conducting research and authoring articles and books including Handbook of Crime Correlates and Handbook of Social Status Correlates. Anthony W. Hoskin Associate Professor of Criminology, Department of Sociology, Social Work, and Criminology, Idaho State University, Pocatello, ID, USA. Anthony Hoskin is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Idaho State University. He received his PhD in Sociology in 1999 at the Sate University of New York in Albany, and has taught at universities in Pennsylvania, California, and Texas before returning to Pocatello, Idaho, his hometown. Professor Hoskin has published research on a variety of social topics, with most of it centered around the causes of crime and interpersonal violence. Malini Ratnasingam Heriot-Watt University Malaysia, Putrajaya,Malaysia. Malini Ratnasingam completed her doctoral studies at the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom. She spent most of her career teaching social psychology at the University of Malaya until 2015. Since then, she has been teaching in the psychology program and pursuing various research interests at Heriot-Watt University in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.