Note that this hierarchy does not have to be perceived the same way by all members of a group. While my informants roughly agreed on who was high and low status, there were significant degrees of disagreement. So to a certain extent, status is in the eye of the beholder. As one becomes inculcated into the community, one's understanding of status will sharpen (as we see in the case study of Adam Jackson in Chapter 3).

Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, loc. 885