Complex Effects of Social Status to Men's Status Identification

Previous studies of status identification in Japan have failed to specify the effect of social status(e. g. educational career, occupational prestige)to status identification. However, this fact does not mean that social status has no effect to status identification. In this paper, I analyze the data of men in1995's Social Stratification and Social Mobility Survey(N=1, 796)using polynomial regression analysis. High educational career has two effects to men's status identification. The one is an effect to raise status identification through marking of high status, and the other is an effect to lower status identification through raising expected level of his occupational prestige. This result suggests that there are complex effects of social status to men's status identification, and it isdificult for ordinary analysis to find out them.