A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class;…
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Marginalization
the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society); "the marginalization of the underclass"; "the marginalization of literature"
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The act of depriving, dispossessing, or bereaving; the act of deposing or divesting of some dignity.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of discriminating, distinguishing, or noting and marking differences.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of ejecting or casting out; discharge; expulsion; evacuation.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of excluding, or of shutting out, whether by thrusting out or by preventing admission; a debarring; rejection; prohibition; th…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right); "suffrage was the prerogativ…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of expelling; a driving or forcing out; summary removal from membership, association, etc.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equ…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The act of impoverishing, or the state of being impoverished; reduction to poverty.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; disproportion; unevenness; disparit…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society); "the marginalization of the u…
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.
Used in the same subject area: Sociology, Inequality and stratification.The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.
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A member of an academy, or society for promoting science, art, or literature, as of the French Academy, or the Royal Academy of arts.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.A garden or grove near Athens (so named from the hero Academus), where Plato and his followers held their philosophical conferences; h…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.The science of the structure and functions of the human body.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.Tending to interrupt or destroy social intercourse; averse to society, or hostile to its existence; as, antisocial principles.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.A group of Tunicata, often shaped like a two-necked bottle. The group includes, social, and compound species. The gill is a netlike st…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.To combine against (a landlord, tradesman, employer, or other person), to withhold social or business relations from him, and to deter…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.of Breed
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.A group of acalephs of which Lucernaria is the type. The body is cup-shaped with eight marginal lobes bearing clavate tentacles. An ab…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.Alt. of Classical
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.The exchange or buying and selling of commodities; esp. the exchange of merchandise, on a large scale, between different places or com…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.The state of being a companion or companions; the act of accompanying; fellowship; companionship; society; friendly intercourse.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.The state of being conventional; adherence to social formalities or usages; that which is established by conventional use; one of the…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.An order of fishes, formerly proposed by Agassiz, for those with thin, smooth scales, destitute of marginal spines, as the herring and…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.The quality or state of being decent, suitable, or becoming, in words or behavior; propriety of form in social intercourse, in actions…
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.Not /ell associated or assorted; incongruous.
Its definition shares important concepts with this word: social, becoming, marginal, group, larger.A composition, in prose or poetry, accommodated to action, and intended to exhibit a picture of human life, or to depict a series of g…
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