Finally, categorical rights (i.e. often referred to as cultural or group rights) involve
an exclusive entitlement to a particular activity or status, which others could use but
cannot receive. In other words, these are not contingent, compensatory, or organizational rights. They form the core of what many theorists refer to as group or cultural rights, but we will call them ‘categorical rights.’13 These kinds of rights can exist to different degrees and are laid out in Table 2.4.