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 its components and really try to understand what's happening on a mechanistic level.

See Also

Notable Posts

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