social status

English

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Noun

social status (countable and uncountable, plural social statuses)

1. (sociology) One's position within a social hierarchy, one's social class along with any personal social advantages or disadvantages, one's value relative to society.

   Synonyms: social standing, social station

   Hypernyms: status, standing, station, rank

   Hyponyms: achieved status, ascribed status

   Coordinate term: social class

Related terms

• social climber
• social climbing
• socialite
• social ladder

Translations

honor or prestige attached to one's position in society

• Armenian: սոցիալական կարգավիճակ (hy) (socʻialakan kargavičak)
• Azerbaijani: sosial status
• Basque: gizarte estatus
• Bulgarian: социален статус m (socialen status)
• Catalan: estatus social m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 社會地位 / 社会地位 (zh) (shèhuì dìwèi)

• Czech: sociální status m
• Dutch: sociale status (nl) m
• Esperanto: socia statuso
• Estonian: sotsiaalne staatus
• Finnish: sosiaalinen status
• French: statut social (fr) m
• Georgian: სოციალური სტატუსი (socialuri sṭaṭusi)
• German: sozialer Status m
• Greek: κοινωνική θέση f (koinonikí thési)
• Hebrew: מעמד חברתי m (ma'amád chevratí)
• Ido: sociala stando
• Italian: status sociale m
• Japanese: 社会的地位
• Kazakh: әлеуметтiк статус (äleumettik status)
• Kyrgyz: социалдык статус (sotsialdık status)
• Polish: status społeczny m, pozycja społeczna f
• Portuguese: estatuto social m
• Romanian: statut social (ro) n
• Russian: социальный статус m (socialʹnyj status)
• Serbo-Croatian: društveni status m
• Slovak: sociálny status m
• Spanish: estatus social m
• Thai: สถานภาพทางสังคม
• Turkish: sosyal statü (tr)
• Ukrainian: соціальний статус (socialʹnyj status)

See also

• pecking order