social position
Where you belong
Social position is a person's place in the hierarchy of a community or society, determined by factors like wealth, occupation, family background, or reputation.
The term emphasizes rank relative to others: Her marriage improved her social position.
Someone conscious of social position pays attention to status distinctions and where they stand among peers.
- noblemanMale of aristocratic rank
- echelonLevel within hierarchy
- statusOne's relative position
- princessMonarch's daughter or heir
- rankPosition in hierarchy
hierarchy · class · working class · bourgeoisie · proletariat · caste · stratification · power elite · occupation · inequality · born into · landed gentry · feudalism · blue blood · meritocracy · matriarchy · pecking order · aristocracy
social positionanonymity
Unknown identity state
obscurity · facelessness · namelessness · invisibility · nonentity
social positionplacelessness
Lack of distinctive locale
marginality · rootlessness · liminality · displacement · classlessness
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