Obama Dyad Status

The Obama’s are a dyad structurally, specifically, how they are composed on a personal level; Barack (Father), Michelle (Mother), Malia, and Sasha. Or as America’s First Family where Barack is The President and Michelle is The First Lady, where the roles as Mom and Dad take a secondary role. They adhere to social norms where the “behaviors they comprise are goal-directed, these goals include: to behave effectively, to build and maintain relationships, and to manage self-concept” (Cialdini & Trost, 1998, pg.151). In which they adhere to prescriptive norms, where they display positively sanctioned behaviour in all contexts, as well as adhering to proscriptive norms where they avoid prohibited actions. Given their role as The First Family of …show more content…
The absence of ascribed status alongside of racist ideologies exemplified the process of “status generalization…that occurs when a status that is irrelevant in a situation still has an effect on that situation… attributions made to people on the basis of social status characteristics, such as race, gender, and age…are generalized to a variety of other statuses and social situations. (Crossman, 2016). The Obama’s violated the homophily network associations embedded in American society and politics, their race was used a deterring factor of their competence and ability. With time and persistence, “the Obama administration had [proven] [themselves] [to] [have] been remarkably scandal-free” (Brooks, 2016). In which all the doubts of incompetency, or controversy had been nullified, due to legitimacy of the Obama Administration which can be attributed to the honest and loyal characteristics of the Obama family. To an extent they have achieved the same status as other Presidential families in the past and hold their status due to the hierarchy of relative ordering of individuals (ie. The First Family will always have status due to their place in