Observation 4 seems directly contradicted by my personal observations in the corporate setting, where “mere” software engineers wear jeans and t-shirts and their managers tend to wear more formal clothing (shirt, tie, suit) the higher in the hierarchy you go.
Observation 6 seems to make a truckload of cultural assumptions. In workplace settings I’m familiar with (I live in France) it’s common to leave boxes of tissues around, and people prefer someone who blows their nose in a group to someone who sniffles constantly. Now in Japan for instance I understand it’s an insult to blow your nose in front of someone.
More generally I would get more value out of these discussions if I knew some “elementary” posts to refer to, normatively, when reading about elaborations on the concepts of “status” or “signaling”. I notice that recent posts about these topics have contained no links to previous posts or posts in the Sequences.
So I’m still not sure there are proper hypotheses behind these terms, such that if I’m reading a discussion on status I can “taboo” the term by myself and replace it with its expansion, to see whether someone taking part in the discussion is bringing in extra assumptions that are only connotationally present in the term “status”.
Observation 4 seems directly contradicted by my personal observations in the corporate setting, where “mere” software engineers wear jeans and t-shirts and their managers tend to wear more formal clothing (shirt, tie, suit) the higher in the hierarchy you go.
Observation 6 seems to make a truckload of cultural assumptions. In workplace settings I’m familiar with (I live in France) it’s common to leave boxes of tissues around, and people prefer someone who blows their nose in a group to someone who sniffles constantly. Now in Japan for instance I understand it’s an insult to blow your nose in front of someone.
More generally I would get more value out of these discussions if I knew some “elementary” posts to refer to, normatively, when reading about elaborations on the concepts of “status” or “signaling”. I notice that recent posts about these topics have contained no links to previous posts or posts in the Sequences.
So I’m still not sure there are proper hypotheses behind these terms, such that if I’m reading a discussion on status I can “taboo” the term by myself and replace it with its expansion, to see whether someone taking part in the discussion is bringing in extra assumptions that are only connotationally present in the term “status”.