The phrase "socially privileged" is correct and commonly used in written English.
It refers to individuals or groups who have higher social status or advantages over others in society. Example: "The country's wealth and resources were mostly controlled by a small group of socially privileged elites, while the rest of the population struggled with poverty and inequality."
For Buchanan, the answer has to do with the institutional mechanisms and social norms that support the socially privileged status of the medical profession, which tend to disable physicians' ability for self-criticism and insulate the medical profession from outsiders' criticisms.
By contrast, educational aspirations to continue with general education are higher among pupils from socially privileged families because they otherwise face downward social mobility, the financial burdens are lower, and they are familiar with general education (Erikson and Jonsson 1996; Breen and Goldthorpe 1997).
Wharton was pre-eminent as a novelist of the socially privileged.
Few of the women are from socially privileged or wealthy families.
And students in the Russell Group are becoming more socially privileged, not less, as Britain has become more unequal.
In adolescence this is not a vital lesson for the socially privileged: the football quarterback or the prom queen.
The colleges providing sex-change coverage tend to have large contingents of socially liberal, privileged students, who take for granted that they can and should voice their views.
On the latter point, St. Andrews has an "elitist" reputation, and she plans to reach out to students from economically and socially less privileged backgrounds.
Similarly to many developing countries, the prevalence of hypertension was generally lower in women than in men [ 11, 12, 22] but it reversed in some socially less privileged groups in Ba-Vi area, such as among women with lower occupational or economic status [ 11].
As he wrote in October 2001: 'If ever there were a time for us to grow out of our protracted, privileged, socially inept adolescence, this would seem to be it.' He was talking about America, but the soul-searching is transparent.
Schools whose entrants come from disadvantaged areas, however prodigious the teachers' efforts, however impressive the value added by the school, will rate less well than indifferent schools with entrants from socially and economically privileged backgrounds.
