Jennifer Wilson
Professor Hartley
Intro to Sociology
Essay #4
Essay #4 When distinguishing between discredited stigma versus discreditable stigma, it can be said that discredited stigma would be that is observable it can be seen and often hard to conceal. Some examples of discredited stigma would be a person’s whereabouts, their race and ethnicity, social incapacity. Whereas discreditable stigma would be those that are not visible or not known about. A few examples of discreditable stigma would be criminal history, an addiction, sexual orientation, disease etc. There are two elements that make up the social structure, role and status. A status can be defined as a social position that a person occupies in a society, there are two categories statuses fall into, achieved and ascribed. A status is the building block of society. An ascribed status is a …show more content…
However, when the transformation from hunting and gathering societies to agricultural societies, it did not happen instantaneous. An agricultural society, is a society based around producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agricultural society is by seeing how much of a nation’s total production is agriculture. As an agricultural society, we rely on domesticated species for food we tend crops. Agricultural societies come into existence around 5-6 thousand years ago, while tending crops the use of animal driven plows come along and thus eventually lead to the creation of cities and formation basic structure of most modern societies. Industrial societies are those in which the use the advance sources of energy rather than using animals or humans to run big machinery, this began around 1700’s. By the twentieth century industrialization had changed dramatically, people could travel farther due to invention of the automobile, better food storage, more means of communication, and the developing of
Professor Hartley
Intro to Sociology
Essay #4
Essay #4 When distinguishing between discredited stigma versus discreditable stigma, it can be said that discredited stigma would be that is observable it can be seen and often hard to conceal. Some examples of discredited stigma would be a person’s whereabouts, their race and ethnicity, social incapacity. Whereas discreditable stigma would be those that are not visible or not known about. A few examples of discreditable stigma would be criminal history, an addiction, sexual orientation, disease etc. There are two elements that make up the social structure, role and status. A status can be defined as a social position that a person occupies in a society, there are two categories statuses fall into, achieved and ascribed. A status is the building block of society. An ascribed status is a …show more content…
However, when the transformation from hunting and gathering societies to agricultural societies, it did not happen instantaneous. An agricultural society, is a society based around producing and maintaining crops and farmland. Another way to define an agricultural society is by seeing how much of a nation’s total production is agriculture. As an agricultural society, we rely on domesticated species for food we tend crops. Agricultural societies come into existence around 5-6 thousand years ago, while tending crops the use of animal driven plows come along and thus eventually lead to the creation of cities and formation basic structure of most modern societies. Industrial societies are those in which the use the advance sources of energy rather than using animals or humans to run big machinery, this began around 1700’s. By the twentieth century industrialization had changed dramatically, people could travel farther due to invention of the automobile, better food storage, more means of communication, and the developing of