ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the status-power dimensions in detail, their definition and rationale. Analytically, human social behavior or interaction consists of two main types, the technical and the relational. A social structure consists in part of the distribution of persons or positions in terms of their scalar standing on the status dimension. Thus, high-status conferral to one's spouse does not mean that the spouse has high status in society at large. Status accord Lest status-power theory be regarded as fostering status-greed and self-enhancement. In a compelling empirical demonstration, Hamblin and Smith established the automatic, Durkheimian/Weberian non-volitional quality of authentic status-accord. Like status, power has a structural and a behavioral aspect. Dominance also suggests a state of monolithic superiority, with one party in a relationship always in charge, while the power as defined within status-power relational theory allows each party to have power either at different times or in different domains.
