Peyton Manning Social Expectations In NFL History

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Peyton Manning is one of the most dominant quarterbacks in NFL history. His social statuses can be divided into two categories: achieved status and ascribed status. An achieved status is one which has been acquired by someone through skills, abilities and hard work, and can be changed by a person. An ascribed status, however, is not able to be changed since it is a status that a person is born with or had no control over.
Peyton Manning is a Caucasian man born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1976, as a son to Archie and Olivia Manning. He has two brothers, Eli and Cooper. From this information, we can see many of Peyton’s ascribed statuses such as being a son to his parents and being an American because he was born in the United States of

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