Social Status and Function

Social status and function of the individual is the equation of the relationship between group and the group and the individual member. It symbolizes the integration of the individual with the group, and that of the group with the individual. It expresses the individual purpose in terms of the society, and the social purpose in the terms of the individual. It thus makes comprehensible and rational individual existence from the point of the group, and group existence from that of the individual.

(XVII, A Functioning Society)