Clicks & Clout: How We Seek Status In the Digital Age
Eichhorn responds to the sociologist Pierre Bourdieu's 1970s concept of "cultural capital": the fluency in forms of high culture that could bestow social status and help members of elite classes to identify one another.
Cultural capital is knowing that cashmere is a more aspirational fabric than cotton or that a Jackson Pollock painting is much mor
... See moreOne of the core needs of humans is a sense of belonging. For centuries, religion, our tribes, our communities, our families have given us that sense, but modern culture, catalyzed by the internet, has broken down a lot of these connective tissues. And so we look desperately for other places for belonging, places where we can participate in some way... See more