The sedimentation rate -- or âsed rate,â for short -- is a blood test that checks for inflammation in your body. Itâs one clue for your doctor that you might have a disease linked to inflammation, like arthritis or cancer. The sed rate test measures how fast red blood cells fall to the bottom of a tube. Inflammation creates proteins that make red blood cells fall more quickly. Another name for this test is erythrocyte sedimentation rate (ESR). Red blood cells are called erythrocytes.
Status symbol is also a sociological term â as part of social and sociological symbolic interactionism â relating to how individuals and groups interact and interpret various cultural symbols.
Definition of Social Status We define social status as the extent to which an individual or group is respected or admired by others (e.g., Ridgeway & Walker, 1995). Like all bases of hierarchy, status can be either an intragroup or an intergroup phenomenon.efinition of Social Hierarchy Social hierarchy is an implicit or explicit rank order of individuals or groups with respect to a valued social dimension. We use the words implicit and explicit to capture the range of awareness that people have of the hierarchies in which they are embedded.