Achieved status

Davis describes seven different status positions that people of mixed races are identified by around the world: Hypodescent Status: This means that a mixed child is assigned the status of the lower status parent group. The one drop rule would be categorized under this status. This status keep the color line in place and the whites at the top of the line of power. Following this status can cause controversy within children’s parents’ communities because the children can be accused of “denying…

Everyone in today's society has participated in forms of deviant behavior whether they're aware of it or not. Deviant behavior refers to violations of social norms. Norms are behavioral codes or prescriptions that guide people into actions and self-presentations conforming to social acceptability. American sociologists, William Sumner (1907) formed three types of norms: folkways, mores, and laws. The behavior I partaken in is considered to be Mores. Mores is based on norms that would generate…

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Trobriand Islands are part of the nation of Papa New Guinea, which is situated in Milne Bay Province. 12.000 indigenous inhabitants live on the main island Kiriwana known as Trobrianders. ‘’The Trobrianders of Papa New Guinea’’ written by Annette B. Weiner is an ethnography that reflects a view of the society from both male and female perspective. The Yanomamo is a group of 35.000 indigenous people, which are situated in Amazon rainforest. ‘’The Yanomamo’’ written by Napoleon Chagnon is an…

“Rewards and status in society keep one motivated to excel in life.” By considering a few local issues that you come across, discuss objectively how the above statement is able to reflect the construction and maintenance of the structure of your society. From the above statement we can see that the statement is made up with three major component which is “Rewards”, “Status” and “Motivated”. To fully justify the meaning of the statement “Rewards and status in society keep one motivated to excel…

stratification of power. He suggests we all are all unequal in these three powers and our individual positions with regards to the them provide us with different life chances. 1) Class, individuals with a similar amount of property and skills. 2)Status, individuals who share common lifestyle and consumption patterns. 3) Party, legal organisations that allow members gain advantages by having membership. Philosopher Karl Marx (1818), proposed relations of production, caused the division of…

one worked, they would spend, causing a lower social status and sometimes a downfall in their everyday lives. Alike,…

I will discuss my personal experience with ascribe status, achieved status, and master status. Then I will bring an example of role strain and role conflict from personal experience. Giving the reason why, I will then discuss which one of these two roles is the most difficult in terms of role exit. Ascribed status is viewed by sociologists as an assigned status to a person by society, without his/her unique talents or characteristics. This status assignment takes place at birth, like racial…

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,…

ascribed, achieved, and attributed these different categories enables to further understand how each one has enabled one to gain a celebrity status and how this affect the public perception. ascribed celebrities are those who have gained a celebrity status due to their lineage mainly known as royalty, socialites with a long background of affluent relative, and children with whose parents were also celebrities. achieved celebrities are known as those who have gained a celebrity status due to…