Discontent with a status quo that offers stagnating living standards, rampant insecurity and declining social provision finds its expression in both the radical left and the xenophobic right.
People with a passion for crickets like Lan Yindong, 44, whose father and grandfather also sold cricket paraphernalia in Beijing, rue the sport's decline in social status and its close association with gambling.
Like populist movements in the past, many voters appeared to be reacting to a sense of waning political power and real and perceived declines in social status and economic opportunity – of a fear in the other.
The accounts describe how hazardous drinking both contributed to serious employment, family and health problems, and was simultaneously used as a coping mechanism to deal with life crises and a decline in social status.
He also traces the linkages between medicine's eventual decline in scientific and social status and realism's displacement by naturalism, detective fiction, and modernism.
Professor Dani Rodrik argues in the New York Times that the current populist backlash to globalization is similar to earlier versions in American history when lesser-skilled workers experienced salary stagnation and saw their social status decline.
It's the speed of the fastest motorcycles on the planet, the dizzying trajectories of artists in a capricious world, the precipitous rise and decline of fortunes, reputations, social status, sanity and, perhaps most acutely, love.
Moreover, a study of elderly people in Taiwan found that lower subjective social status predicted decline in health beyond that accounted for by objective indicators of SES.
The social causation perspective emphasizes the importance of psychosocial stressors in the development of mental illness, whereas health selection theory argues that illness leads to a decline or downward drift in social status.
