ANTHROP 1AB3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Ascribed Status, Margaret Mead, Achieved Status
20 Mar 2016
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Age, gender, race, and ethnicity are essential to anthropology because these categories reflect the most basic principles of sociality how societies divide individuals into social groups and roles. All cultures have their own unique rules to guide sociality. Ascribed status position in society that is delegated to an individual at birth. Achieved status refers to social position earned throughout life. May be earned based on skill level, potential, and determination. Inequality and discrimination based on status results in stratified societies. Age is one of the most basic categories used to separate individuals into different social groups and statuses. Anthropologists distinguish between age sets and age grades. Age grade ascribed/achieved statuses that individuals pass through on their own, prevalent in modern societies (ex. baby, toddler, adolescent, teen, adult, swimming level, driver"s license) While a year group or class in school could be regarded as a simple example of an age set (ex.
