social status groups
1Social status — In sociology or anthropology, social status is the honor or prestige attached to one s position in society (one s social position). The stratification system, which is the system of distributing rewards to the members of society, determines… …
2social status — Relative rank that an individual holds, with attendant rights, duties, and lifestyle, in a social hierarchy based on honour and prestige. Status is often ascribed on the basis of sex, age, family relationships, and birth, placing one into a… …
3Social order — is a concept used in sociology, history and other social sciences. It refers to a set of linked social structures, social institutions and social practices which conserve, maintain and enforce normal ways of relating and behaving. A social order… …
4Social Dominance Theory — is a social psychological theory of group conflict which describes human society as consisting of oppressive group based hierarchical structures. According to the theory, individual people possess varying levels of preference for social dominance …
5Social dominance orientation — (SDO), is a personality variable which predicts social and political attitudes. It is a widely applied Social Psychological scale. SDO is conceptualised as a measure of individual differences in levels of group based discrimination and… …
6status — status, social status There are two approaches to the concept of status in sociology. In its weak form, it simply means the position which a person occupies in the social structure , such as teacher or priest. It is often combined with the notion …
7Status inconsistency — is a situation where an individual s social positions have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status. For example, a teacher may have a positive societal image (respect, prestige) which increases his or her status but may… …
8Social interpretations of race — Social interpretation of physical variation Incongruities of racial classifications Even as the idea of race was becoming a powerful organizing principle in many societies, the shortcomings of the concept were apparent. In the Old World, the… …
9Social rule system theory — is an attempt to formally approach different kinds of social rule systems in a unified manner. Social rules systems include institutions such as norms, laws, regulations, taboos, customs, and a variety of related concepts and are important in the …
10Social work with groups — Social Work with GroupsThe group process contains the secret of collective life, it is the key to democracy, it is the master lesson for every individual to learn, it is our chief hope for the political, the social, the international life of the… …
