Master Status And Status Interdependency?

1) What is being said in this statement is that family is not this necessary building block to society that is intrinsic in every person. It is instead the over veneration of this sense of obligation to a set group of people. A very bold claim in the eyes of most seeing as family is often seen a fundamental and integral part of most cultures. This claim does have some interesting sociological implication though. Oakley is basically saying that given the proper circumstances family is not just the people who are related by blood, instead they can be those who one feels an attachment to and that sense of duty. It challenges the traditional idea of family and what truly constitutes family and to go even further if family is even a beneficial thing and not just some compulsory thing.
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The master status being one’s most important aspects of ones identity in the eyes of society and status inconsistency is how ones social status affects them positively or negatively. One’s status inconsistency is practically entirely dependent on one’s master status. If one possesses the qualities in which society holds valuable they reap the benefits of status inconsistency. For instance, a world that values white heterosexual Christian Anglo-Saxon males typically sees this type of people in majority positions of power and wealth. The opposite is true for someone who is a gay, Muslim, woman of color. One would find that this woman does not have any where near the opportunities of the aforementioned male. These characteristics are often the breaking point on what is recognized within people’s lives. A good example of this is the discovery of the structure of DNA. James Watson and Francis Crick are credited for the people who discovered the DNA was a double helix structure. In actuality Rosalind Franklin was the one who came up with it but due to her being a woman was not officially credited until very