SOC 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Ascribed Status, Sick Role

• School: University of Manitoba
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 1200
• Professor: Kandrack Mary- Anne

Document Summary

Ascribed status facilitated/limit achieved status: saying female doctor instead of doctor. For other ethnicities - forget their occupation there master status is their ethnicity. Status is the position that we occupy - defined by the prestige attached to it. Role - expected behaviour that is attached to status. Role - prescribed pattern of behaviour that is structured around the rights and duties or obligations that are associated with a give position: expectation of the behaviour is the script. Sick role: status - patient, sick role - position you occupy when you"re ill. Health is the norm - illness is deviant from the norm: 2 rights are associated with patient. Exempted from responsibilities for your condition - not blamed for being ill. Health - dying at the slowest possible rate: we will all die. When you"re sick you have a role: obligations in sick role. What are you entitlements and obligations for that role.