It seems like by “status” you mean status within society at large, mainly economic status, while I think most people here are thinking about status within your own social group.
So if you stop to tie your shoe and you have high status within your social group, your friends will stop and wait for you; if you have low status, they won’t. (You display your assessment of your own status by asking “Hey, wait up, I have to tie my shoe” or by not asking.) There are finer gradations depending on how quickly you tie your shoe: you might hurry to avoid slowing down your friends, which I’m sure has various implications.
I’m not saying you should care about any of this; but it certainly could be an issue. If it’s not an issue, that could mean one of two things: either you’re so high-status you don’t even notice these things, or you’re not in high school any more :)
Oh, that’s interesting. I guess I do think about stuff like that but I don’t … usually frame it as a status question. I just think about it in terms of what the people I’m around have a problem with. Like if they seem annoyed that I’m tying my shoes all the time, I try not to do it? Or whether I like the people enough to do stuff for them, for example.
Actually, you made me think of a really good example of this and it goes back to the earlier question of whether we should ask people things. I have a bad habit of walking off and not responding during IM conversations! I mostly do it because IM is that sort of casual medium where you can be doing a bunch of other things at the same time. I think most people I talk to don’t really care but when people tell me that they’re bothered by it, I make an effort to let them know if I’m not gonna respond for a while. But I guess some people might be interpreting it as a status move and therefore not letting me know it bothers them? So maybe the people that I figure are also not responding because they’re busy are actually deliberately not responding to also signal status? Oops.
It seems like by “status” you mean status within society at large, mainly economic status, while I think most people here are thinking about status within your own social group.
So if you stop to tie your shoe and you have high status within your social group, your friends will stop and wait for you; if you have low status, they won’t. (You display your assessment of your own status by asking “Hey, wait up, I have to tie my shoe” or by not asking.) There are finer gradations depending on how quickly you tie your shoe: you might hurry to avoid slowing down your friends, which I’m sure has various implications.
I’m not saying you should care about any of this; but it certainly could be an issue. If it’s not an issue, that could mean one of two things: either you’re so high-status you don’t even notice these things, or you’re not in high school any more :)
Oh, that’s interesting. I guess I do think about stuff like that but I don’t … usually frame it as a status question. I just think about it in terms of what the people I’m around have a problem with. Like if they seem annoyed that I’m tying my shoes all the time, I try not to do it? Or whether I like the people enough to do stuff for them, for example.
Actually, you made me think of a really good example of this and it goes back to the earlier question of whether we should ask people things. I have a bad habit of walking off and not responding during IM conversations! I mostly do it because IM is that sort of casual medium where you can be doing a bunch of other things at the same time. I think most people I talk to don’t really care but when people tell me that they’re bothered by it, I make an effort to let them know if I’m not gonna respond for a while. But I guess some people might be interpreting it as a status move and therefore not letting me know it bothers them? So maybe the people that I figure are also not responding because they’re busy are actually deliberately not responding to also signal status? Oops.