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Definition:
A person's "social status" is a position they hold relative to other people in society.
There are two general types of social status: ascribed and achieved. Ascribed social
status is something which is "assigned" to a person at birth: race, ethnicity, sex, etc.
Such a social status is unalterable and most often also the basis of various systems of
social oppression.
Achieved social status is something which a person acquires through the course of their life: education, occupation, marriage, parental roles, etc. These are alterable and are also, sometimes, the basis for more subtle forms of social oppression or control.
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