Meanings
nounachieved status (plural achieved statuses)
plural achieved statuses
- human sciencesA person's social status that is acquired, such as being an Olympic athlete, being a criminal, or being a college professor.
The modern ideal is to organize society as a system of achieved status, where a higher position is based on personal achievements rather than immutable characteristics.
2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN
Translations
Polish status osiągnięty
- status osiągniętythe social status that is acquired
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