status group

English

Etymology

Introduced by German sociologist Max Weber as Stand.

Noun

status group (plural 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.

Further reading

• status group on Wikipedia.Wikipedia