Social Status

Related concepts

• Signaling

Real or perceived relative measure of social standing, which is a function of both resource control and how one is viewed by others.

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain
• Actors See Status by Robin Hanson, quoting Keith Johnstone
• LW tag: That Other Kind of Status by Yvain

See Also

• Signaling

Social Status is an abstraction to model how people relate to each other, how social hierarchies are formed, and how people facilitate trade in the absence of financial accounting (as well as a variety of other stuff). I mean, everyone knows what status is, but here is where we break that down into it'sits components and really try to understand what's happening on a mechanistic level.

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain
• Actors See Status by Robin Hanson, quoting Keith Johnstone
• LW tag: Status

Real or perceived relative measure ofSocial Status is an abstraction to model how people relate to each other, how social standing, which is a function of both resource controlhierarchies are formed, and how onepeople facilitate trade in the absence of financial accounting (as well as a variety of other stuff). I mean, everyone knows what status is, but here is viewed by others.where we break that down into it's components and really try to understand what's happening on a mechanistic level.

Blog posts

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain
• Actors See Status by Robin Hanson, quoting Keith Johnstone
• That Other Kind of Status by Yvain

See Also

• Signaling

Related concepts

• Signaling

Blog posts

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain
• Actors See Status by Robin Hanson, quoting Keith Johnstone

See Also

• Signaling

Notable Posts

• The Nature of Offense by Wei Dai - People are offended by grabs for status.
• Why Real Men Wear Pink by Yvain
• Actors See Status by Robin Hanson, quoting Keith Johnstone
• That Other Kind of Status by Yvain

External

• Melting Asphault (by Kevin Simler) has many great posts on status
• Elephant in the Brain by Simler and Hanson
• Impro (book on improv covering status relations)
• Writings by Venkatesh Rao such as Gervais Principle and something, something Psychopath