Gossip is a lot about making status moves. Enviroments where people engage in a lot of status moves are adverserial in nature. If status works well it manages to give people who deserve less status according to the group norms less status but individual actors can exploit it.
The nature of the status moves is also that they often have plausible denailability both to the person engaging in gossip themselves and to the people who listens.
Gossip is a lot about making status moves. Enviroments where people engage in a lot of status moves are adverserial in nature. If status works well it manages to give people who deserve less status according to the group norms less status but individual actors can exploit it.
The nature of the status moves is also that they often have plausible denailability both to the person engaging in gossip themselves and to the people who listens.