Things Everyone Obeys And No One Wrote Down

Are Mostly Expectations

Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Precious When You Own Them

Change You Without Asking

Create Asymmetry

Create Distance

Make You Who You Are

Measure

Need Belief

Need Interpretation To Exist

Quietly Divide

Tempt

status

travel

perk

airline miles

is a social honor, a dimension of social stratification that was clearly distinct from class.

Prestige remains somewhat ambiguous. In the European sociological tradition, Max Weber conceptualized status as social honour and saw this as a dimension of social stratification that was clearly distinct from class (q.v.). Class inequality was based on unequal accessto material rewards and different life-chances (q.v.).

is backed by the solid buildings of the world while personal identity often resides in the cracks.

Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit... our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks Erving Goffman

is reduces by nothing more than being caught grubbing for it.

Nothing reduces status like being caught grubbing for it.

is a gauge people use to measure what isn't important.

is everything --- a nobleman is always in the right when a peasant sues

A nobleman is always in the right when a peasant sues

is overrated --- every cemetery is filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

Every cemetery is filled with people who thought the world couldn't get along without them.

is everything --- Men are like numbers; they only acquire value by their position.

Men are like numbers; they only acquire value by their position.

is not so special --- no matter how high a man sits, he still sits on his own bottom.

No matter how high a man sits, he still sits on his own bottom.

status, n.All

status