Thanks for posting this. It’s always interesting to see how what seem like obvious concepts actually have histories and are disputed.
Education, income, and occupation strikes me as a classification that’s destructively over-simplified. How does it handle power and respect relationships which are outside the mainstream? I’m thinking of children, street gangs, and terrorist groups. I don’t think it can even generate an adequate description of families. I’m going to file it under “prime example of drunk and lamp post fallacy”.
You might be interested in this description of how status is handled in the SCA—it argues that having a system of three types of honor (for service, research, and heavy fighting) contribute greatly to the success of the organization.
Thanks for posting this. It’s always interesting to see how what seem like obvious concepts actually have histories and are disputed.
Education, income, and occupation strikes me as a classification that’s destructively over-simplified. How does it handle power and respect relationships which are outside the mainstream? I’m thinking of children, street gangs, and terrorist groups. I don’t think it can even generate an adequate description of families. I’m going to file it under “prime example of drunk and lamp post fallacy”.
You might be interested in this description of how status is handled in the SCA—it argues that having a system of three types of honor (for service, research, and heavy fighting) contribute greatly to the success of the organization.