# Status group

> Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Status_group
> Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Status_group.md
> Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_group
> Source revision: 1313837126
> License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/)

{{Short description|Categorization of people within a society}}
{{Sociology}}
The German sociologist [Max Weber](/source/Max_Weber) formulated a [three-component theory of stratification](/source/three-component_theory_of_stratification) that defines a '''status group'''<ref>Reinhart Bendix. 1960. Max Weber: An Intellectual Portrait. p. 105. London: Heinemann.</ref> (also '''status class''' and '''[status estate](/source/Estates_of_the_realm)''')<ref>Guenther Roth and Claus Wittich (eds). 1978. ''Economy and society: an outline of interpretive sociology, Volume 1.'' p. 300. University of California Press.</ref> as a group of people within a [society](/source/society) who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as [honour](/source/honour), [prestige](/source/Reputation), [ethnicity](/source/ethnicity), [race](/source/Race_(human_categorization)), and [religion](/source/religion).<ref>{{citation |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=rdA86k8WTuoC&pg=PA42 |title= The Breakdown of Class Politics|author= Terry N. Clark, Seymour Martin Lipset|year= 2001|isbn= 978-0801865763}}</ref> The German terms are ''Stand'' (status group) and ''Stände'' (status groups)

To date, sociologists study the matter of "status incongruence" in both in [post-industrial societies](/source/post-industrial_society), and in pre-industrial societies.<ref>''From Social Class and Religious Identity to Status Incongruence in Post-Industrial Societies'', by [Mattei Dogan](/source/Mattei_Dogan) in ''Comparative Sociology'' (2004) www.statusgroup.com.ua</ref> Status groups emerge from "the house of honor", and that such status-honor stands in contrast with:
* [social class](/source/social_class), based on [economic](/source/economic)ally determined relationship in the house of the marketplace
* [political party](/source/political_party), based on affiliations in the [political domain](/source/politics), or the house of power

Status groups, social classes, and political parties are the constituent concepts of the [three-component theory of stratification](/source/three-component_theory_of_stratification). Discussion of the relationships among status groups, social class, and political parties occurs in Weber's essay "Class, Status, Party", written before the First World War (1914–18); the first translation into English, by [Hans Gerth](/source/Hans_Gerth) and [C. Wright Mills](/source/C._Wright_Mills), was published in the 1940s. Dagmar Waters and colleagues produced a newer English translation of the essay, titled "The Distribution of Power within the Community: Classes, Stände, Parties" (2010), published in the "Journal of Classical Sociology"; the title of the new English-language translation includes the German word "Stände" (status groups) in place of the English term.<ref>"The Distribution of Power within the Community: Classes, Staende, Parties", Journal of Classical Sociology, 2010:137–152, http://jcs.sagepub.com/content/10/2/137.short</ref><ref>The New Zeppelin University of "Class, Status, Party" by Tony Waters and Dagmar Waters, Journal of Classical Sociology 2010:142–148 http://jcs.sagepub.com/content/10/2/153.extract</ref>

Status groups feature in the varieties of social stratification addressed in popular literature and in the academic literature, such as categorization of people by [race](/source/race_(human_categorization)), [ethnic group](/source/ethnicity), [racial caste](/source/caste), professional groups, community groups, nationalities, etc.<ref>Waters, Tony and Dagmar Waters (2016).  Are the Terms 'Socioeconomic Status' and 'Class Status' Oxymorons for Max Weber?  Palgrave Communications http://www.palgrave-journals.com/articles/palcomms20162</ref>  These contrast with relationships rooted in economic relations, which Weber calls "class".

Sociologist [Pierre Bourdieu](/source/Pierre_Bourdieu) discusses [cultural capital](/source/cultural_capital) and [symbolic capital](/source/symbolic_capital). Like Weber, he comments on how non-monetary means are used to confer and deny status to individuals and groups.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Frédéric |first1=Lebaron |editor1-last=Michalos |editor1-first=Alex |title=Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research |date=2014 |publisher=Springer Link |page=6537–6543 |url=https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-0753-5_2961 |access-date=27 April 2024 |chapter=Symbolic Capital}}</ref>

==See also==
* [Caste](/source/Caste)
* [Charismatic authority](/source/Charismatic_authority)
* [Cultural capital](/source/Cultural_capital)
* [Intelligentsia](/source/Intelligentsia)
* [Kinship](/source/Kinship)
* [Social stratification](/source/Social_stratification)
* [Symbolic capital](/source/Symbolic_capital)

==References==
{{reflist}}

{{Social class}}

Category:Social classes

---
Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Status group](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_group) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Status_group?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Changes may have been made.