{
  "id": "status.social",
  "term": "status",
  "sense": "social",
  "pos": "noun",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "status",
  "domain": "everyday",
  "style": "window",
  "definition": "a model of future usefulness held by others, updated lazily through drift outside the window of current reality; its boundaries shift suddenly when feedback forces realignment.",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "model.representation",
      "feedback.communication",
      "drift.aimless",
      "window.range",
      "boundary.limit",
      "current.fluid",
      "force.push",
      "future.temporal",
      "held.grip",
      "others.distinct-entities",
      "outside.spatial",
      "updated.temporal"
    ],
    "interaction": "The components together sustain a shared anticipation of utility that persists through passive change until disrupting feedback compels abrupt boundary shifts.",
    "novel_properties": [
      "anticipatory valuation",
      "latent instability",
      "social realignment threshold"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "Martha Stewart's prison sentence temporarily collapsed her media brand's aspirational status until her return on *The Apprentice*.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "The 2008 financial crisis abruptly reset the high status of AAA-rated mortgage-backed securities once defaults revealed their true risk.",
      "domain": "economics"
    },
    {
      "text": "Linus Torvalds maintained his status as Linux's benevolent dictator through consistent code feedback, despite years of distributed development drift.",
      "domain": "computing"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "state.condition",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "property.attribute",
      "note": "abstracts",
      "type": "abstracts"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [],
  "forms": [
    "status",
    "statuses"
  ],
  "closed": false,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.8,
    "sources": [
      "Sample/we-already-had-the-words.md"
    ],
    "reconciled": {
      "by": "openrouter:qwen/qwen3-235b-a22b-2507",
      "date": "2026-07-31",
      "changed": "factual",
      "note": "The original record omitted several constitutive concepts implied by the definition, especially 'current.fluid', 'force.push', 'future.temporal', 'held.grip', 'others.distinct-entities', 'outside.spat"
    }
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-status.social"
}