status system
chiefly Social Sciences
noun
A social system organized around the status of individuals; a social group in which status derives from a person's position or achievement with regard to some aspect of the group's activity.
Origin
1930s; earliest use found in Journal of Negro Education.
- practicalize
- practical joke
- practical joker
- practically
- practically minded
- practical nurse
- practical nursing
- practical politician
- practical politics
- practical theology
- practicant
- practice
- practiceable
- practice court
- practice curve
- practiced
- practice makes perfect
- practice note
- practice pad
- practice range
- practice tee
- practice wicket
- practician
- practicism
- practico-inert