Conventional advice on career advancement focuses too much on power and not enough on status, argues Alison Fragale, author of Likeable Badass: How Women Get the Success They Deserve. “Status is how ...

Explore the definition and historical journey of status symbols. Learn how they adapt with societal changes and remain key indicators of social and economic stature.

While they might seem irrationally status-obsessed, they’re not outliers. The allure of brand-name schools was strong when I applied to colleges as a teenager. In my competitive high school, it was ...

Ben is a credit cards and luxury travel writer, an immigrant with three citizenships and a husband. He speaks English, Spanish and Italian, has a background in linguistics and languages, and travels ...

Remote work is becoming a status symbol for those at the top of companies. Remote workers used to be second-class citizens; they were less likely to get raises and promotions, and more likely to face ...

In his 1899 book The Theory of the Leisure Class, the economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen wrote that “conspicuous abstention from labor … becomes the conventional mark of superior pecuniary ...