SOCI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Ascribed Status, Achieved Status, Role Theory
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Status: a recognized social position that an individual occupies. Imposes responsibility and expectations in reality with others. Ascribed status: a status one is born into or enters involuntarily. Achieved status: a status one enters voluntarily, often re ecting ability and or accomplishment. Master status: the most important status a person occupies, this dominates all other statuses and determined a person"s social position. Role set: refers to all the roles that are attached to a particular status. : university students play many roles such as leaners, peers, customers. Occurs when incompatible demands are placed on a person by two or more status held at the same time. Occurs when two or more statuses are built into a single stratus that the person holds. Occurs when people disengage form social roles yay have benn central to their identity.
