ABSTRACT
Status attainment can be understood as a process by which individuals mobilize and invest resources for returns in socioeconomic standings. These resources can be classified into two types: personal resources and social resources. Personal resources are possessed by the individual who can use and dispose of them with freedom and without much concern for compensation. Social resources are resources accessible through one’s direct and indirect ties. The access to and use of these resources are temporary and borrowed. For example, a friend’s occupational or authority position, or such positions of this friend’s friends, may be ego’s social resource. The friend may use his or her position or network to help ego to find a job. These resources are “borrowed” and useful to achieve ego’s certain goal, but they remain the property of the friend or his or her friends.
