Editing Popularity (section)

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In [[sociology]], '''popularity''' is how much a person, idea, place, item or other concept is either liked or accorded status<ref>{{Cite report|pages=101|author=Massachusetts Dept. of Corporations and Taxation|date=1932|title=Annual Report of the Commissioner of Corporations and Taxation|publisher=University of Michigan}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=S |first=Waisbord |date=2004 |title=McTV: Understanding the Global Popularity of Television Formats. |url=https://doi.org/10.1177/1527476404268922 |journal=Television & New Media |volume=5 |issue=4 |pages=359–383|doi=10.1177/1527476404268922 |s2cid=220732538 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Blaikie |first=William Garden |date=1882 |title=The Catholic Presbyterian, ed. by W.G. Blaikie |journal=The Catholic Presbyterian, ed. By W.G. Blaikie |publisher=The Oxford University |volume=7 |pages=127}}</ref> by other people. Liking can be due to [[reciprocal liking]], [[interpersonal attraction]], and similar factors. [[Social status]] can be due to [[Dominance (ethology)|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 (hierarchy)|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]]<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Ellison|first1=Nicole B.|last2=Steinfield|first2=Charles|last3=Lampe|first3=Cliff|date= July 2007|title=The Benefits of Facebook "Friends:" Social Capital and College Students' Use of Online Social Network Sites|journal=Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|language=en|volume=12|issue=4|pages=1143–1168|doi=10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00367.x|doi-access=free}}</ref> are. '''Sociometric popularity''' is measured by objectively measuring the number of connections a person has to others in the group.<ref>{{Cite journal|first1=E.W.|first2= J.T.|last1=Zuckerman|last2= Jost|date=2001|title=What Makes You Think You're so Popular? Self-Evaluation Maintenance and the Subjective Side of the "Friendship Paradox"|url=https://doi.org/10.2307/3090112|journal=Social Psychology Quarterly|volume=64|issue=3|pages=207–223|doi=10.2307/3090112|jstor=3090112}}</ref> A person can have high perceived popularity without having high sociometric popularity, and ''vice versa''.

According to psychologist Tessa Lansu at the [[Radboud University Nijmegen]], "Popularity [has] to do with being the middle point of a [[Social group|group]] and having [[Social influence|influence]] on it."<ref name=":0">{{Cite web | url=http://www.ru.nl/sociology/@877216/popularity/ | title=Popularity an unconscious deterrent }}{{Dead link|date=May 2020 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>