status
Let an agent explain social status and rank, describe how status is conferred and signalled, analyse status in organisations neutrally, and separate the sense of status as current state.
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4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions
Define What status is.
Kinds
Kinds of status.
Kinds
Kinds.
- Is this status ascribed, achieved or formally conferred, and by whom? definition
- What markers signal it? definition
Measure
Measuring status.
Measure
Measurement.
- How do sociologists measure socioeconomic and occupational status? provenance
- What are the limits of such measures? boundary
Systems Status systems.
Ranks
Formal ranks.
Ranks
Ranks.
- How does the rank or precedence system of this institution or society work, according to its rules? provenance
- How are ordinal positions such as first or former used to express status? definition
Mobility
Changing status.
Mobility
Mobility.
- What does research say about social mobility and how status changes over generations? provenance
- Which factors matter? provenance
Dynamics Status in groups.
Groups
Status in groups.
Groups
Groups.
- How does status emerge and operate in small groups and workplaces, according to research? provenance
- How can status differences be managed fairly? action
Fairness
Status and discrimination.
Fairness
Fairness.
- Does this treatment based on status breach anti-discrimination law? boundary
- Are stereotypes about status groups avoided? boundary
Senses Disambiguation.
State
Status as current state.
State
State sense.
- Is status meant as the current state of an order, system or process? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Legal
Legal status.
Legal
Legal status.
- Is a legal status such as residency, marital or refugee status meant? boundary
- Which entry fits? action
Classifiers Filled
- Family
- Thing Registry
- Category
- Cross-cutting context
- Entry kind
- noun.state
- Plane
- XCT
- Domain
- XCT.STA
- Facets: substance
- abstract
- Facets: origin
- conceptual
- Facets: agency
- inert
- Facets: mobility
- not-applicable
- Facets: scale
- not-applicable
- Facets: affordances
- observable
- Other names and narrower kinds
- exorcist, first, number one, former, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh
What it is Filled
The relative position or standing of a person, group or thing within a society, organisation or system, conferred by rank, achievement, wealth, office, birth or recognition, and expressed through titles, roles and treatment; status is studied in sociology and psychology, and the word also denotes the current state of a process or system, a separate sense.
Why it exists Filled
Let an agent explain social status and rank, describe how status is conferred and signalled, analyse status in organisations neutrally, and separate the sense of status as current state.
Distinguishing features Filled
- Relative position
- Socially conferred
- Signalled by markers
- Ascribed or achieved
What robots and AI may and may not do Filled
Must not
- Infer or assign social status to individuals from personal data.
- Treat people differently by perceived status where law or fairness forbids it.
- Mock or demean people of low status.
- Misstate titles or ranks.
Only with a human decision
- Decisions that grant or remove status, such as titles or membership.
May
- Describe a person's or group's status only from public, sourced records such as titles or offices.
- Explain how status is conferred in a given society or organisation.
Moral aspects Filled
- Status hierarchies shape access to power and respect; reinforcing them can entrench injustice.
- Loss of status harms dignity and wellbeing.
Who is affected
- People of low status
- Holders of titles
Owners Filled
Steward
Nobody owns the concept; the body that confers a title or rank answers for it.
Links to other meta-models Filled
parent
- oewn-00024900-n - registry parent class
related
- social position - category
- hierarchy - ranking
- aristocrat - hereditary status
- social group - status within groups
What else AI and robots need to interact with it Filled
Identity and identifiers required Filled
- Vercy registry: vr.tr.status
- Open English WordNet: oewn-13968971-n
Direct properties not applicable Not applicable
Not applicable
Plane XCT: no invented physical properties.
Recognition optional Filled
- Rank and standing
- Titles and treatment
- Status as state describes a process, not a person
- Not physical; a social position.
Capabilities and actions required Filled
- explain how status is conferred and measured
- describe status systems and ranks
- analyse status dynamics in groups
- separate the state sense
Hazards and failure modes required Filled
- Reinforcing stereotypes
- Confusing senses
- Treating status as fixed
Standards and interfaces required Filled
- Anti-discrimination law limiting status-based treatment
- Protocol and precedence rules for formal ranks
Context of use required Filled
- Understanding social standing.
- ascribed status such as birth and caste
- achieved status through occupation or accomplishment
- formal ranks and offices
- informal status in groups
- legal status such as citizenship
Sources Filled
- Open English WordNet 2024, synset oewn-13968971-n - sense and gloss of the concept
- Wiktionary: status - word senses and usage
Open questions
- Should legal status be a separate entry?
- How should sociological sources be linked?
- How should the state sense be split?
Machine files
Provenance
thing registry research (pass 2) · unreviewed
Built from: models/things/publications/thing-status/spec.json