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achieved status

noun

achieved status

noun
1

Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, Sociology A person's social status that is acquired, such as being an Olympic athlete, being a criminal, or being a college professor.

  • The modern ideal is to organize society as a system of achieved status, where a higher position is based on personal achievements rather than immutable characteristics.2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

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