minority status
collocation in Englishmeaningsofminorityandstatus
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minority
noun
uk/maɪˈnɒr.ə.ti/us/maɪˈnɔːr.ə.t̬i/
a smaller number ...
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status
noun
uk/ˈsteɪ.təs/us/ˈsteɪ.t̬əs/
an accepted or official position, especially in a ...
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(Definition ofminorityandstatusfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofminority status
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In aggregate analyses, measures of social disorganization are typically correlated with ethnicminoritystatus.
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She maintains that the "emotion ofminoritystatus" (p. 47) is a powerful force in the sociohistorical context of the families studied.
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To answer this question, we first examined the direct effect ofminoritystatuson people's predisposition to protest.
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As a result, family income and participantminoritystatuswere entered into analyses whenever they were significantly related to any other variable in the analysis.
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As a result, many important questions concerning the relation of socioeconomic andminoritystatusto the variables of interest could not be investigated.
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Family income and participantminoritystatuseach had slight correlations with primary measures in the study in several instances.
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Because of itsminoritystatus, the coalition government was forced to seek outside support for reform.
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This procedural interpretation of democracy most likely reflects their ownminoritystatusand their reliance for protection on constitutional and legal rules.
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Our primary independent variables include politicalminoritystatusand experience with democracy.
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What comes to the fore is theminoritystatusof these essentially oral languages that are usually branded as faulty or substandard.
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Maltreated and nonmaltreated children were comparable with respect to receptive vocabulary, child age,minoritystatusand child gender.
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We estimated an interactive model that included democratic age, majority-minoritystatus, and an interaction of the two (as well as the other control variables).
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Aminoritystatusdrags the cabinet towards inaction.
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Competence and adversity score patterns were also inspected withinminoritystatusgroups and found to be highly similar.
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In other words, the emotion ofminoritystatusis acquired, as are other aspects of language in early childhood development.
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Nonetheless, it is worth discussing the issue of ethnicity separately because of idiosyncratic issues associated withminoritystatus.
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In the interaction model, our hypothesis would be supported if the interaction term was significant and negative, indicating a smaller effect forminoritystatus, the older the democracy.
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There is still widespread disbelief that the 1993 election was really lost, and an almost systematic resort to conspiracy theory to explain the party's currentminoritystatus.
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These decisions, however, are invariably embedded in a context that is defined by such factors as socioeconomic level and the majority orminoritystatusof specific languages.
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