Social status is a measure of something like the average desirability of everyone else to be your friend. It does has causal power in the minds of people how a

Social status is a measure of something like the average desirability of everyone else to be your friend. It does has causal power in the minds of people how actively think of it, as they actively relate to the concept. But for other people who don’t think of it, social status is a composite measure that correlates to things, but does not actually have any effect on anything.