popularity
Sign in to saveIn sociology, popularity is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status by other people. Liking can be due to reciprocal liking, interpersonal attraction, and similar factors. Social status can be due to dominance, superiority, and similar factors. For example, a kind person may be considered likable and therefore more popular than another person, and a wealthy person may be considered superior and therefore more popular than another person.
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29 sectionsContents
- Introduction
- Types of interpersonal popularity
- Sociometric popularity or likeability
- Perceived popularity or social status
- Comprehensive theories
- "Popularity Explained"
- Conceptual foundations
- Three-factor model
- Interpersonal causes
- Attractiveness
- Aggression
- Relational aggression
- Overt aggression
- Cultural factors
- Demographic differences
- Maturity
- Gender
- Race
- Effects of popularity in the workplace
- Importance
- Benefits
- Contributing factors
- Leadership popularity
- The popularity of objects as a consequence of social influence
- Information cascades
- Zipf's law
- See also
- References
- Further reading
In sociology, popularity is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status by other people. Liking can be due to reciprocal liking, interpersonal attraction, and similar factors. Social status can be due to dominance, superiority, and similar factors. For example, a kind person may be considered likable and therefore more popular than another person, and a wealthy person may be considered superior and therefore more popular than another person.
There are two primary types of interpersonal popularity: perceived and sociometric. Perceived popularity is measured by asking people who the most popular or socially important people in their social group are. Sociometric popularity is measured by objectively measuring the number of connections a person has to others in the group. A person can have high perceived popularity without having high sociometric popularity, and vice versa.