...expectations, rights, and duties.() Statuses define us in so many ways, and sadly enough these statuses are so embedded in our society no one even realizes how significant they are. The statuses we have regardless of how we got them come with roles we have to play every single day, and although they may change due to the environment, or setting we are in, no matter where we are, we always are playing a role and we always have a status. The numerous statuses we hold are part of a status set, which is all the statuses one person occupies at a given time. Some of the different statuses one person can occupy is an ascribed status, achieved status, and a master status. An ascribed status is a social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life, based on at-tributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as race/ ethnicity, age, and gender.() An achieved status is a social position a person assumes voluntarily as a result of personal choice, merit, or direct effort.()Lastly a master status is the most important status a person occupies. Now the different types of statuses listed are status that you, yourself have, but you can also have status symbols which are material signs that inform others of a person’s specific status. Examples of this would be if you were wearing a Rolex, which would show others you of rich status, or on the other spectrum your ripped dirty clothes could be a status symbol that you are poor. Statuses are not only for people of...
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...are placed on a high pedestal and held to a higher standard. Garbage men are looked down on and sometimes not even held to a standard because of their profession. According to Witt (2011:103), status “is the social positions we occupy relative to others.” Status isn’t just what your profession may be. Being a woman, man, Caucasian, Asian, student, or gardener is a status. There are different types of status. A person can have an ascribed status, which is basically a status that a person is born with such as male/female or race. A person can also have an achieved status, which is a status that a person can change such as student, wife, or occupation. With each status that we hold, we also have roles to play. “A role is a set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status” (Witt 2011:105). For example, we expect teachers to be great with students and lawyers to know the law. Unfortunately, this is not always the truth. For the duration of this paper, I would like to share important ascribed and achieved statuses that I myself hold in society. Status and Roles Achieved Status and Corresponding Roles For the past seven years, I have been enlisted as a soldier in the United States Army. Not everybody can or even wants to be a soldier, but this is a position that I hold near and dear. I intend on making this a career by continuing to reenlist and not just decide to quit when an enlistment time frame is over. Currently as soldier, I am...
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...1 of 20 Which of the following conclusions would sociologists most likely agree upon when discussing the importance of the sociological perspective? | It opens a window to unfamiliar worlds and offers a fresh look at familiar worlds. | | It verifies our basic assumptions about life and the need to focus on human needs. | | It challenges cultural tradition to provide a new framework of human understanding. | | It enforces social solidarity and expands the importance of the social imperative. | 1 out of 1 Correct!! 2 of 20 The event that most inspired Auguste Comte to pose the question, "What holds society together?" and begin developing sociology as a science was the ________. | industrialization of society | | discovery of the new world by Christopher Columbus | | development of the psychoanalytic approach | | French Revolution | 1 out of 1 Correct!! Question 3 of 20 Based on the theories formulated by Karl Marx, what was the ultimate goal of the proletariat? | The proletariat sought to establish a democratic society and independence. | | The proletariat wanted to develop a society with a strong middle class. | | The proletariat sought to develop a classless society free of exploitation. | | The proletariat wanted to establish capitalism and a higher standard of living for all. | 1 out of 1 Correct!! 4 of 20 What sociological phrase is used to describe "opening a window onto unfamiliar worlds and offering a fresh...
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...A social group is two or more people who interact with each other on a regular basis in routine ways. The people in a social group share a common sense of membership, and identity. A society is not a social group. In a society there are social groups. Within society, not every member interacts with all other members on a regular basis. Social groups differ from an aggregate. An aggregate is not a group, it is a collection of individuals who share the same physical space for a short period of time. Unlike the two social groups(primary, and secondary) ; the collection of people in an aggregate do not see themselves as belonging together, and they don’t interact with one another on a regular basis. The people who are on the same train, or at the same concert as you are both examples of an aggregate. However, within a aggregate there are social groups. The way to tell if a group is primary or secondary is from the nature of relationships. Primary groups are the groups that have our intimate relationships. This group is usually small in number. The interaction within the primary group is personal and long lasting. This is the group where members share personal aspects of their lives, and have personal knowledge of each other. Members show legitimate concern for one another. They are always helping each other by giving mutual support on a personal basis. If a primary group breaks up, it is destructive both for self identity and feeling of belonging. Secondary groups are pretty much...
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...University of Phoenix Material Social Structure Matrix |Status |My ascribed statuses are: my age, my gender, Im a daughter, a sister also my race is my ascribed | |Identify the different statuses you hold |status. | |in society, both ascribed and achieved. |My achieved statuses are: I’m an employee, a student, a friend and also a wife. | | | | |Points: /1 | | |Master Status |My master status is that after years of working hard I am now the manager of a popular retail chain.| |Identify your master status in society. | | | | | |Points: /.5 | | |Social Roles |Describing the roles of my status above: My age plays a role in what kind of job...
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...and how you yourself can affect it. My own sociological imagination has been shaped by the effects of society and I have came to realize its’ repercussions to myself and the way it has both hurt and helped my subconscious view of my surroundings has a Caucasian, American, and middle class person. When I was born I was endowed certain attributes that coincided with my culture and socialization. These attributes at birth can be considered part of my ascribed statuses among society. As I grew up I acquired more status’s threw the addition of family members, hobbies, and sports. These acquired statuses are considered achieved statuses because you have to earn them; they are not given to you. For me, ascribed statuses are those such as a son, grandson, or nephew. Where as most ascribed statuses are easy to point out as your relationship with a relative, as not much else can just be given to you without your effort besides perhaps, the financial situation of your parents or the races they are apart of. My achieved statuses were not so easy to acquire and as I grew older I became a part of many things throughout my life. I played baseball and golf which gave me an achieved status of a sports player in the most...
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...Paolo Mutia Sociology – Gordon 3 November 2015 Assignment 3 Social status is the position that someone occupies in society or in a social group, while roles are the behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status. For example, a woman may have the status of mother in her family. Because of this status of a mother, she is expected to perform a role for her children. This role may be defined through actions such as nurturing, education, protecting, and guiding the children. Social structure, is the arrangement of institutions where human beings in a society interact and live together. The group collectively decides the set of statuses and roles. By creating a set of expectations of actions and behavior, people know what to expect...
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...Caste System A caste system is a social system based on ascribed statuses, which are traits or characteristics that people possess as a result of their birth. Ascribed statuses can include race, gender, nationality, body type, and age. A caste system ranks people rigidly. No matter what a person does, he or she cannot change castes. People often try to compensate for ascribed statuses by changing their nationality, lying about their age, or undergoing plastic surgery to alter their body type. In some societies, this strategy works; in others, it does not. Example: Religion is an ascribed status in some societies. Americans may convert to other religions, but in other countries, people may not change out of the particular religion into which they were born. India’s Caste System The Indian government officially outlawed the caste system in 1949, but vestiges of it remain today. The system originated with the Hindu religion, which subscribes to the concept of reincarnation, the belief that while the physical body dies, the soul of a person is immortal and goes on to be reborn into another body. People who are good in their current life will come back to improved circumstances in the next life, but if they are evil, they will be punished in the next one. Therefore, those who are poor or ill are suffering punishment for having done something wrong in a past life. One should not interfere in the life of another person because that individual’s circumstances are the result of what...
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...University of Phoenix Material Social Structure Matrix Part 1 – Social Roles and Status |Status |The two different statuses I hold are unemployed and being a mother and a student. Being unemployed | |Identify the different statuses you hold |would fall under ascribed. And being a mother and student would fall under achieved. | |in society, both ascribed and achieved. | | |Master Status |My mastery status in society would be a parent. | |Identify your master status in society. | | |Social Roles |My role as a parent is a very important responsibility. I have to always be a mother. Even when | |Describe the roles associated with the |times get tough. | |various statuses identified above. | | |Role conflict, strain, exit |I experienced a role conflict. I was hospitalized due to a gallblatter removal. It was unexpected. | |Discuss a time when you experienced |It was hard because I never had surgery before...
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...modern society, while we are living in a modern society. Therefore, there's a big difference in the social structure between our modern life and that of people from Martin Guerre's village. 1. Statuses and roles- The ascribed statuses of people from Martin Guerre's village has a much bigger influence in the statuses they achieve than the influence on people in modern society. For example, Martin Guerre's wife, kids, uncle and mother in law are all born in a farming family. And farmer become their permanent social statuses. On the other hand, living in a modern society, we have more choice of what status we want to achieve, there are many lawyer, doctors, director born in farm or small towns. In addition, we have a much bigger status sets than people from Martin's village. Me, myself is an research assistant working in a lab, a daughter at home, a student at school, a leader of a club, etc. In contrast, villagers in The Return of Martin is more simplex, either a landowner or a tenant farmer. The roles associated with statuses in premodern societies are largely complimentary. In the movie, we saw that Martin's wife would get together with other women to work in the mill room, Martin's uncle lead other farmer to work on the land, helping each other. However, the diverse statuses in our modern society always conflict with each other. For example, the conflict between the police and the criminal. 2. Group Interaction People in premodern societies spend more time with primary...
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... This is beginning to change as gay marriage has become legal in thirty-seven states. Another trend forming is couples who act married (sharing income, housing, and children) but never legally get married. They may have rings but don’t share the legal rights of marriage. Social Structure and Interaction in Everyday Life Social interaction is the process by which people act toward or respond to other people and is the foundation for all relationships and groups in society. Social structure is the complex framework of societal institutions and the social practices that make up a society and that organize and establish limits on people’s behavior. Some components of social structure are your status and role. There are many types of statuses and roles....
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...hear the word status, we think of people who have a lot of money, power, and influence in society. Sociologists use the word status in reference to “any social identity recognized as meaningful by the group or society”. A status is a “position that carries with it certain expectations, rights, and responsibilities”. There are many statuses that we are born with, such as our ethnicity, race or sex, but there are also the other statuses through our lives that we enter and exit. The three primary statuses I feel that I occupy and are most important to my identity would be that I am a mother, a wife, and a photographer. I feel that of all the statuses I myself embody, those are the ones that are most important to me, those are the ones that consume most of my time, and those are the ones that others identify with me. All three of my primary statuses are achieved statuses, and that type of status is defined as “a status that we attain through talent, ability, effort, or other unique characteristics”. Whereas ascribed statuses are “received involuntarily, without regard to our unique talents, skills, or accomplishments”, all three of my primary statuses were not received involuntarily. When we occupy a certain status, society expects us to follow certain sets of behaviors, and to play a certain “role”. We are constantly being watched and our roles are constantly being evaluated by society. I feel as a mother, I am supposed to perform the role of being caring, loving and attentive...
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...------------------------------------------------- University of Phoenix Material Social Structure Matrix Complete both parts of this worksheet. Part 1 – Social Roles and Status Complete the following matrix by answering each in one or two sentences. Question | Answer | StatusIdentify the different statuses you hold in society, both ascribed and achieved. | Some ascribed rolls I carry are the roll of: Son, male, and latino.An achieved roll would be: Manager, High School Graduate, and traveler. | Master StatusIdentify your master status in society. | My master status is that I am the son of immigrant parents, achived career success at a young age, and the eldest of my siblings. | Social RolesDescribe the roles associated with the various statuses identified above. | I would say I am a manager as a profession, a college student, a son, a brother, a friend, boyfriend, grandson, nephew, an collegue. | Role conflict, strain, exitDiscuss a time when you experienced either role conflict, role strain, or role exit. | I experienced roll strain when I was promoted and my requirements skyrocketed soon-after, I was instantly placed in a category where I was suppose to know all the answers and say the right things. It was a big challenge to overcome. | GroupsIdentify one primary group and one secondary group to which you belong. | My romantic relationship would serve as a primary and my workplace as a second. | Norms, sanctions, and valuesDescribe the norms...
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...Topic One - Ascribed statuses are relatively fewer, but they are very crucial in our daily life. Explain why they are so crucial. An ascribed status is the social position given to an individual when he or she is born and it continues throughout his or her life regardless of the qualifications or talents. They are crucial because of the misrepresentation of that individual’s potential; he or she could be rejected or mistreated due to the negative stereotypical attitudes, it created inequity. It is the perception the society bestows on a specific class of people. It is up to the misclassified individuals to take measures to insure a higher position or classification among business, if the woman did not have the advantage of a higher education than the man would most likely obtain the position. Another example, upon my child entering elementary school he or she is not dress in brand new designer clothes, he or she may be viewed as being poor, but if the child is seen exiting a luxury car this status would be lifted. Topic Two - A reference group has two major functions: A social control function and a yard-stick function to our daily behavior. Explain how a reference group serves as a social control function to us. A reference group plays a vital part or our everyday life. A reference group directly affects the mannerism and the perception of how the individual views his or her self. The two primary purposes of a reference group are to implement acceptable behavior and beliefs...
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...Starting with the premodern society and moving on to our modern society I will compare and contrast the two societies. In the film The Return of Martin Guerre, the people lived on a pre modern society. They lived in a agricultural society and this was shown by many reasons. First they had permanent homes and used animals as well as tools to work their crops. They also used a crop rotation instead of burning the land. This is just a basic outline of the society that Martin lived in. Looking deeper into their social structure their society was much different than a modern one. As far as statuses and roles, Martins society believe that status was more ascribed than achieved. This meant that being an older person or a parent meant you were of a higher status. Since there was less status to achieve, then there was overall less status altogether. In the end, each persons role helped each other. Looking at the film you can see obedience to parents and less role conflict among the people. Each person had a place in the village and it never conflicted with their other roles. Going on to group interaction in Martins society there was much more primary interaction. Primary interaction is among family and close friends or villagers. Since they were a village and from the looks of it rarely left they knew each other as friends. Most of there work and school involved people they were close to not a person apart of the secondary group. The village Martin lived in was held together...
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