Editing Status group

{{Short description|Categorization of people within a society}}
{{Sociology}}
The German sociologist [[Max Weber]] formulated a [[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 '''[[Estates of the realm|status estate]]''')<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]] who can be differentiated by non-economic qualities such as [[honour]], [[Reputation|prestige]], [[ethnicity]], [[Race (human categorization)|race]], and [[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” — both in [[post-industrial society|post-industrial societies]], and in pre-industrial societies.<ref>''From Social Class and Religious Identity to Status Incongruence in Post-Industrial Societies'', by [[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]], based on [[economic]]ally determined relationship in the house of the marketplace
* [[political party]], based on [[Political party|affiliations]] in the [[politics|political domain]], or the house of power

Status groups, social classes, and political parties are the constituent concepts of the [[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]] and [[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 (human categorization)|race]], [[ethnicity|ethnic group]], [[caste|racial 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]] discusses [[cultural capital]] and [[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==
* [[Social stratification]]
* [[Caste]]s
* [[Kinship]]
* [[Cultural capital]]
* [[Symbolic capital]]
* [[Charismatic authority]]

==References==
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