A snob, guilty of snobbery, is someone who adopts the worldview that some people are inherently inferior to him/her for any one of a variety of reasons including real or supposed intellect, wealth, education, ancestry, etc. A comprehensive world view (or worldview) is a term Calqued from the German word Weltanschauung ( Welt is the German Intelligence (also called intellect) is an Umbrella term used to describe a property of the Mind that encompasses many related abilities such as the capacities Wealth derives from the old English word "weal" which means "well-being Education encompasses both the Teaching and Learning of Knowledge, proper conduct, and technical competency An ancestor is a Parent or ( recursively) the parent of an ancestor (i Often, the form of snobbery reflects the offending individual's socio-economic background. For example, a common snobbery of the affluent is the affectation that wealth is either the cause or result of superiority, or both as in the case of privileged children. However, a form of snobbery can be adopted by someone not a part of that group; Pseudo-intellectual is a type of snob. Such a snob imitates the manners, adopts the world-view and affects the lifestyle of a social class of people to which he or she aspires, but does not yet belong, and to which he or she may never belong. The term lifestyle was originally coined by Austrian psychologist Alfred Adler in 1929 Social class refers to the hierarchical distinctions (or stratification) between individuals or groups in Societies or Cultures.

A snob is perceived by those being imitated as an arriviste, perhaps nouveau riche or parvenu, and the elite group closes ranks to exclude such outsiders, often by developing elaborate social codes, symbolic status and recognizable marks of language. Nouveau riche ( French for "new rich" or new money, refers to a person who has acquired considerable Wealth within his or her A Parvenu is a person that is a relative newcomer to a socioeconomic class Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect" A status symbol is a visible external denotation of one's social position and indicator of status. The snobs in response refine their behavior model (Norbert Elias 1983). Norbert Elias ( June 22, 1897 &mdash August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent who later became

Contents 1 Historical origins 2 Reverse snobbery 3 See also 4 References 5 Further reading 6 External links 6.1 Etymologies

Historical origins

Characteristically, snobs look down on people who are part of groups that they regard as inferior or flaunt their wealth in order to make others feel inferior. Compare the points of view embodied in the informal and subjective categories of "highbrow" and its contrasted "lowbrow". Used colloquially as a Noun or Adjective, highbrow is synonymous with Intellectual; as an adjective it also means Elite

The Oxford English Dictionary finds the word snab in a 1781 document with the meaning of shoemaker with a Scottish origin. The Oxford English Dictionary ( OED) published by the Oxford University Press (OUP is a comprehensive Dictionary of the English Year 1781 ( MDCCLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common The connection between "snab", also spelled "snob", and its more familiar meaning arising in England fifty years later is not direct. England is a Country which is part of the United Kingdom. Its inhabitants account for more than 83% of the total UK population whilst its mainland

The once popular etymology of snob as a contraction of the Latin phrase sine nobilitate ("without nobility") is now discredited. ^[1]

It is agreed, however, that the word "snob" broke into broad public usage with William Makepeace Thackeray's Book of Snobs, a collection of satiric sketches that appeared in the magazine Punch and were collected and published in 1848. William Makepeace Thackeray (ˈθækərɪ 18 July 1811 – 24 December 1863 was an English Novelist of the 19th century Punch was a British weekly Magazine of Humour and Satire published from 1841 to 1992 and from 1996 to 2002 Thackeray's definition of "snob" then: "He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. " The "mean things" were the showy things of this world, like a secretaryship in the Queen's Cabinet, where Prime Ministers invariably retired as earls. Earl was the Anglo-Saxon form and jarl the Scandinavian form of a title meaning " Chieftain " and referring especially to chieftains

"Suppose in a game of life— and it is but a twopenny game after all— you are equally eager of winning. Shall you be ashamed of your ambition, or glory in it?"

— Thackeray, "Autour de mon Chapeau," 1863

Thackeray had many opportunities to study snobs in action as he grew up. He was born in Calcutta, India, the only son of a Collector in the service of the British East India Company, a sphere of opportunity for Englishmen of talent whose social standing was an impediment to a career at home, but who in India could lord it like a "nabob". India, officially the Republic of India (भारत गणराज्य inc-Latn Bhārat Gaṇarājya; see also other Indian languages) is a country The Honourable East India Company ( HEIC) referred to most commonly as the East India Company, also historically and colloquially as John Company, or A Nawab or Nawaab ( Urdu: نواب Hindi: नवाब was originally the Subedar (provincial governor or viceroy of a After his father died, Thackeray was sent home to England to be educated at the ancient and respectable though not quite stylish public school Charterhouse, and at Trinity College, Cambridge. An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school relying upon private sources for all of its funding predominantly in the form of school fees Charterhouse, originally Sutton's Hospital in Charterhouse, is a prominent boys independent or public school as they're known in Britain between Trinity College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England.

Reverse snobbery

Reverse snobbery is the phenomenon of looking unfavourably on perceived social elites – effectively the opposite of snobbery. Elite (also spelled Élite) is taken originally from the Latin, eligere, "to elect" For instance poorer members of society may consider themselves to be friendlier, happier or more honest or moral than richer members of the society, and middle income members of society may stress their poorer origins.

A related phenomena is where people who have worked hard to change their lives are accused of having 'betrayed their roots'.

See also

• Anti-elitism
• Chronological snobbery
• Classism
• Narcissism
• Pedant
• Spoiled brat
• Wannabe
• Pride
• Emotional insecurity

References

Further reading

• Norbert Elias, The Court Society 1983. Norbert Elias ( June 22, 1897 &mdash August 1, 1990) was a German sociologist of Jewish descent who later became

External links

• Joseph Epstein, "In a snob-free zone": "Is there a place where one is outside all snobbish concerns—neither wanting to get in anywhere, nor needing to keep anyone else out?"

Etymologies

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• Merriam Webster On-line Dictionary
• On-line Etymology Dictionary

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