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position in a social hierarchy
the British are more aware of social status than Americans are
How To Use social status In A Sentence
- -- _Social status the measure of financial status_. The Fertility of the Unfit
- She speculated that the shifting social status of women during the war years stoked male anxiety about female bonding and independence from men.
- You should feel proud of yourself for not being shallow and liking someone for social status or looks.
- In fact, social status throughout Polynesia had two quite distinct and separable aspects to it.
- If marriage confers social status and respectability, adultery confers a stigma.
- Half of those surveyed said that they were members of the middle class, a social status that was once considered far more rarefied. Times, Sunday Times
- The Panamanian–any Panamanian, regardless of position or social status–was a “Spiggotty” or “Spig,” terms supposedly derived in earlier years from the erroneous claim of Panama City hackmen that they could “speaks-da-English.” The Path Between the Seas
- The actual privilege and social status of members of the retainer class varied considerably. Macrosociology: An Introduction to Human Societies
- The veiling of women by scarf or hood, and their seclusion, became a mark of honour and social status in cities of the Middle East and Mediterranean world in the centuries before the Common Era.
- The first was the birth or natal status of the child defined by social and canonical conventions, and the social status of the parents.