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An instance of authority status is the collective ascription of an authority function to an actor by a community, although not necessariy by their will. The substance of the authority status is the communal commitment to relating to and acting toward the actor in question according to the designated authority. Instances of authority status may be attributed to individuals or to groups of individuals.

Instances of authority status are recognizable through evidence of community members adopting the intentional stance of so relating or acting toward the actor in question, as observable from direct witnesses, through the reports of competent observers or through evidence of a declarative act [e.g.: E17 Type Assignment] initiating this status.

Instances of social status may come to be through a formal process such as a declarative act of assignment [E17 Type Assignment], or may have arisen through habit, fiat or be of unknown origin. Instances of social status may end either though a formal process, such as a new declarative act of classification, or simply fade out of existence.

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