Ascribed status

Part One Ascribed Status (pg. 98) – A position an individual either inherits at birth of receives involuntarily later in life. Something I learned from the film that relates to ascribed status is how the people in the slums of Dharavi are typically generational ‘slumdogs’. This means they were probably given this low, economic status and label at birth, and this has been passed down generation from generation. The stigma attached to the label follows as well. With the movie Slumdog Millionaire, it really affected how they are perceived as well. The lowest insult someone in India could be called is a dog, and this is what the Dharavi people were taken back by. They do not wish to be called a dog. However, with the way they were born into the…

First and foremost, to discuss about from the book and the materials in sociologic class. Social status is the position occupied by individual and a part of basic framework of social life. Ascribed status is involuntary and often inherited at birth or received involuntary later in live. Achieved status is voluntary, earned or become, and can be positive or negative. Master status is cutting across or dominates status of others. Status inconsistency is when two statuses do not go together. What…

To be exact, ascribed status, a status one is born with. Schaefer has a great way of explaining status and make it clear. Having an ascribed status is something you can't change, the 10 year old boy was born with autism and it was his ascribed status he couldn't change. It wasn't his fault or choice to be born with this disability in life. People should definitely think different because the boy was autistic and didn't know what he was doing to kick and scratch the teacher. He didn't deserve to…

My ascribed social statuses are that I am a brown skin 20 year old Hispanic female. My achieved social status is that I am a psychology major in my second year of college. Based on my social status I have a sum of expected behaviors or roles I should practice like studying for my classes, paying for my bills as a 20 year old should, speaking fluent Spanish, and social extrovert. However in many of my social statues I have some role conflict. For being a shade darker people believe that I should…

Self Analysis My ascribed status is I am a white, female, a daughter, a sister, and an American. These are my ascribed statuses because they are things I cannot change, and they were not a result of any choices I have made. On the other hand, my achieved status would be that I am a student, a friend, an employee, a housekeeper, and a girlfriend. My achieved statuses are things that I have chosen to do; it depends on where I live, who I hang out with, the people I interact with, and what is out…

beginnings of societal structure members have dispersed resources in unequal ways depending on both roles and statuses within their community. For example, hunter-gatherer societies would reward their hunters with more food because they were hunting throughout the day as opposed to the members who stayed back in the village gathering small plants1. From then on society has evolved maintaining a hierarchical form. This hierarchical form has led to uneven distribution and allocation based on…

Social Interaction is the way people talk, and act with one another. Social interaction includes many different things like the way one eats with their family, cashiers and shoppers, War, nonverbal communications, getting directions, and how we dress. It is how one presents themselves; therefore, it is also how the world perceives us and others judge us. Status plays a huge role in Interaction, Status helps us define our relationship to others. Status also helps us understand the person…

rival who is running against her and also her own boyfriend. The teenage girl, Dylan Schoenfield, unexpectedly meets a guy, Josh Rosen, who is considered a geek in her opinion. Josh changes Dylan’s selfish and high maintenance views. Relationship with Sociology There were many concepts running into my mind as I was watching this movie. First off Dylan, the main character, has achieved status and also ascribed status and lives in high culture. Not only does Dylan get her fame from being born into…

Social interaction is guided through a network of interrelated status and roles, also known as a social structure. Social structure gives a society many characteristics and creates a distinct pattern in human interaction. There are many cases of social structure throughout the film PleasantVille. The film overlays a jarring number of examples of social constructs through very blatantly rudimentary means. Status was a distinctive theme in the film Pleasantville. David (Tobey Maguire) and his…

concept of role theory is status. Status refers to a recognizable social position that an individual occupies. (2015) According to Conley (2015), a professor or individual who runs the classroom has a status to live up to. Such as having the responsibility for grading assignments means that that individual has the status of professor. Status is like a rank in society and defines people of who they are. In addition, let’s say for instance that we swap statuses with professor to a student. A…