Editing Role (section)

== Definition ==
[[Stanley Wasserman]] and Katherine Faust cautioned that "there is considerable disagreement among social scientists about the definitions of the related concepts of [[social position]], [[social status]], and social role." They note that while many scholars differentiate those terms, they can define those terms in a way that clashes with the definitions of another scholar; for example they state that "[[Ralph Linton|[Ralph] Linton]] uses the term 'status' in a way that is identical to our use of the term 'position'".<ref name="WassermanFaust1994">{{cite book|author1=Stanley Wasserman|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CAm2DpIqRUIC&pg=PA348|title=Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications|author2=Katherine Faust|year=1994|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0521387071|page=348}}</ref>