SOC 656 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Serena Williams, Ascribed Status, Achieved Status
27 Dec 2019
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Lecture 3: dressing to belong social groups: govern our interactions; express our place in the social structure. Status is your social position; a label that defines you in society; you hold many; can be general or specific; comes with expectations of how to look and act; all your statuses make up your status set. Achieved status voluntary status; one that you"ve earned; social recognition for a mastery. Ascribed status social position assigned to a person involuntary; the label people see you as; can be a negative label. If it doesn"t meet with social standards, it can be an ascribed status (gender, sexuality, etc. ) Disabled, leukemia, cancer, etc: master status combination of achieved and ascribed status; identity. Serena williams will always be known as a tennis player. Role playing their role of their status. Role-taking individual responds to social situations and expectations for that status. Role-making changing the role to fit your own criteria; based on your status.
