英和和英

名詞

status group (複数形 status groups)

1. (social sciences) A group of people within a society who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as honor, prestige, ethnicity, race, and religion.

   Coordinate term: social class

   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     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.