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Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual 's social positions have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status .. social status. social status. For example , a teacher may have a positive societal image -LRB- respect , prestige -RRB- which increases their status but may earn little money , which simultaneously decreases their status .. teacher. teacher. money. money. Advocates of the concept propose that status inconsistency has consequences for social action that can not be predicted from the so-called `` vertical '' dimensions of status alone .. -LRB- In statistical terms , it is an interaction effect -RRB- .. interaction effect. interaction effect. Introduced by Gerhard Lenski in the 1950s , the concept has remained controversial with limited empirical verification .. Gerhard Lenski. Gerhard Lenski. One unresolved question is whether people who are judged by sociologists to be status inconsistent actually feel they are somehow under-rewarded or over-rewarded .. Blocker and Riedesel -LRB- 1978 -RRB- employed more than the usual statistical controls and found evidence of neither a correlation between `` objective '' and `` subjective '' status inconsistency , nor of effects of either on hypothesized behavior that was independent of the vertical dimensions of status .