status group
nounEtymology Introduced by German sociologist Max Weber as Stand.
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Human sciences, Sciences, Social science, 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.
- 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: