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status group

status group noun: a group of people within a society who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as honor, prestige, ethnicity, race, and religion.

Noun

status group (plural status groups)

  1. A group of people within a society who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as honor, prestige, ethnicity, race, and religion.
    • Mainstream society functions as a macro status group, with the core status beliefs centered on the varieties of capital outlined in the previous section. Alternative status groups believe in criteria outside of traditional capital.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN

Forms of status group

pluralstatus groups

Origin of status group

Introduced by German sociologist Max Weber as Stand.

Questions about status group

What does status group mean?
Status group means a group of people within a society who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as honor, prestige, ethnicity, race, and religion.
What part of speech is status group?
Status group is a noun.
What is the plural of status group?
The plural of status group is status groups.

Words near status group in the dictionary

  1. status constructus
  2. status dramaticus
  3. status effect
  4. status effects
  5. status epilepticus
  6. status group
  7. status groups
  8. status in quo
  9. status in quos
  10. status Indian
  11. status Indians

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