Achieved status

noun

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

    "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."

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"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."