achieved status

English

Noun

achieved status (plural achieved statuses)

1. (sociology) A person's social status that is acquired, such as being an Olympic athlete, being a criminal, or being a college professor.

   Coordinate term: ascribed status

   • 2022, W. David Marx, chapter 1, in Status and Culture, Viking, →ISBN:

     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.