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    Social status refers to a person's position in society, such as their roles as a child, parent, student, or worker. Status can be ascribed, meaning assigned at birth based on characteristics like gender, age, family background, or ethnicity. Or status can be achieved through positions attained during one's life like becoming a doctor or business owner. An individual's status set is the collection of social statuses they hold, like daughter, wife, and church member. The master status is the primary status that shapes a person's identity, such as being a mother or veteran. Having multiple roles can lead to role conflict if the roles' demands are incompatible, or role strain if a person lacks the resources to fulfill the roles' expectations

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    Social status refers to a person's position in society, such as their roles as a child, parent, student, or worker. Status can be ascribed, meaning assigned at birth based on characteristics like gender, age, family background, or ethnicity. Or status can be achieved through positions attained during one's life like becoming a doctor or business owner. An individual's status set is the collection of social statuses they hold, like daughter, wife, and church member. The master status is the primary status that shapes a person's identity, such as being a mother or veteran. Having multiple roles can lead to role conflict if the roles' demands are incompatible, or role strain if a person lacks the resources to fulfill the roles' expectations

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    Social status refers to a person's position in society, such as their roles as a child, parent, student, or worker. Status can be ascribed, meaning assigned at birth based on characteristics like gender, age, family background, or ethnicity. Or status can be achieved through positions attained during one's life like becoming a doctor or business owner. An individual's status set is the collection of social statuses they hold, like daughter, wife, and church member. The master status is the primary status that shapes a person's identity, such as being a mother or veteran. Having multiple roles can lead to role conflict if the roles' demands are incompatible, or role strain if a person lacks the resources to fulfill the roles' expectations

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    Social Status and Role

    STATUS
    Position in a social system is called status
    , such as child or parent (Linton, 1936).

    Status is a position in the general institutional


    system, recognized and supported by the
    entire society spontaneously evolved rather
    than deliberately created, rooted in the
    folkways and mores (Kingsley Davis).
    Status refers to what a person is.
    STATUS
    Any position
    recognized position
    assigned by the society
    to its members is called
    status.
    STATUS SET

    A status set is a collection of


    social statuses that an individual
    holds. A person may
    have status of a daughter, wife,
    mother, student, worker, church
    member and a citizen. The term
    "status set" was coined by
    Robert K. Merton in 1957
    MASTER STATUS
    •
    In sociology, the master status is the social
    position that is the primary identifying
    characteristic of an individual. The
    term master status is defined as "a status that
    has exceptional importance for social identity,
    often shaping a person's entire life." Master
    status can be ascribed or achieved.
    MASTER STATUS
    Types of Social Status

    ASCRIBED
    STATUS
    ACHIEVED
    STATUS
    ASCRIBED STATUS

    Ascribed Statuses are


    those which are fixed
    for an individual at
    birth.
    DETERMINANTS OF ASCRIBED STATUS

    Sex
    Family
    back Age
    ground

    Ethnicity Race
    ACHIEVED STATUS
    The statuses about which the
    person has some choice,
    however much or little, are
    achieved statuses.
    Any position achieved by
    the individuals in the
    society is called Achieved
    status.
    ACHIEVED STATUS

    The traditional societies


    stressed the Ascribed status
    whereas the modern and
    civilized societies mainly
    based on the Achieved
    Status.
    EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVED STATUS

    DOCTOR
    ENGINEER
    PROFESSOR
    BUSNIESSMEN
    ACCOUNTANT
    ROEL CONFLICT
    Role conflict results from the competing
    demands of two or more roles than via for
    our time and energy. the more statuses we
    have, and the more roles we take on, the
    more likely we are to experience role
    conflict.

    There was a conflict between his


    roles as a family member and
    official at a time is the result of
    role
    ROEL CONFLICT
    ROLE STRAIN
    • Role strain occurs when we have trouble
    meeting the social roles expected of us.
    People can also experience both role conflict
    (when two roles have demands that are
    mutually exclusive) and role overload (when
    one doesn't have the resources to meet the
    demands of multiple roles)

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