POLI 1001 Chapter : IMG 0255
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Social structure: pattern of behavior that governs people"s relationships: predictable, order, includes people holding certain occupations, roles, statues, etc. Status: position in social hierarchy that comes with a set of expectations: a person occupies in society, student, professor, brother, sister, friend, daughter, etc, can be ranked but doesn"t always apply to different amounts of prestige. Master status: overrides all others in our identities: highly visible, shape your entire life, usually it includes your occupation, race, gender, to students, professor castle"s master status is our professor. Exam question: andrea is an aspiring associate editor for a major publisher. She is single but feels married to her work. last year she received a. ,000 bonus for the excellent work she did in promoting new textbooks published by her employer. Andrea"s ascribed status is ____ and her achieved status is ____: female; married, married; female, bonus recipient; associate editor, married; bonus recipient, female; associate editor.
