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socioeconomic status
[soh-see-oh-ek-uh-nom-ik stey-tuhs, stat-uhs, ‐-ee-kuh‐, soh--dz‐, soh‐]
noun
the position or standing of a person or group in a society as determined by a combination of social and economic factors that affect access to education and other resources crucial to an individual’s upward mobility: SES
Low socioeconomic status is linked to many health risks, including cardiovascular disease.
socioeconomic status
An individual's or group's position within a hierarchical social structure. Socioeconomic status depends on a combination of variables, including occupation, education, income, wealth, and place of residence. Sociologists often use socioeconomic status as a means of predicting behavior.
Word History and Origins
Origin of socioeconomic status1
Example Sentences
Is that not the American dream, being born into one life or socioeconomic status and forging your way into whatever your picture of success looks like?
Is that not the American dream, being born into one life or socioeconomic status and forging your way into whatever your picture of success looks like?
“At a certain point, I turned an interest to those who had been marginalized by society in some way, whether it was because of the color of their skin or their gender expression or their socioeconomic status, and developed an interest in depicting those people in a way that both celebrated them but also gave them some space to just exist,” he said.
And generally what you see now is that every measure of socioeconomic status and political engagement is just monotonically related to your chance of liking Trump….
Shor summarizes this painful reality for the Democrats: “It’s basically that the lower your political engagement, education level or socioeconomic status, the less engaged you are in politics, the more Trumpy you are. And that just wasn’t true four years ago.”
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