NAME: CHIN SIEW QIN

STUDENT ID: B18101054

FACULTY: BUSINESS & MANAGEMENT

COURSE: BSC (HONS) BUSINESS & MARKETING

TITLE: SOCIOLOGY FORTH SHORT QUESTION ASSIGNMENT

1. What are Social Roles?

- defines a set of behaviors that are expected of someone who holds a particular status.
-  role expectations can change over time and also differ between cultures
- Example : A woman becomes a mother when she has a child and so occupies the
status of mother. She is expected to also play the role of mother by caring for and
loving her children (among other things).

2. Explain role distance in the perspective of Sociological Perspectives.

Refers to the detachment of the performer from the role he or she is performing. This
makes an important distinction between the existence of expectations concerning role
performance of a role and individual commitment to role. The act of presenting
yourself as being removed or at a distance from the role you are being required to
play.

3. What are the criteria used to divide people?

- Education, Prestige, Occupation, Wealth and Income
- involuntary associations and voluntary associations

4.State the 4 major systems of stratification of society in history?

Slavery -   used to denote “a man whom law and/or custom regards as the property of
another”.

-Slaves are in lower condition and have no political rights. 

Caste - status determined by birth, lifelong

- ascribed status

- boundaries between caste impenetrable with practice of endogamy (marriage

within group) developed the rules of ritual pollution (inferior caste
 contaminating superior caste)

Estate - Estates were categories in feudal systems, especially in Europe during middle
ages.

Class – based on material possessions including money. Prevalent in industrialized

societies
- ascribed status (based on one’s parents)