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status groups

status groups is the plural of status group.

Meaning of status group

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

Questions about status groups

What is status groups the plural of?
Status groups is the plural of status group.

Words near status groups in the dictionary

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

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