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Comment author: bogus 30 May 2012 11:10:59PM *  -1 points [-]

The Office according to The Office, and Robert Greene's The 48 Laws of Power.

These only really apply to organized hierarchies, though. When people talk about "status" mattering in human interactions, they mean a combination of perceived power, influence, impressiveness and the like, plus instinctual dominance-submissiveness interactions. Formal hierarchies in a complex organization are a distinct matter, although they do influence status in the former sense.