SOC 201 Chapter 8: Chapter 8.8
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This suggests as well that because i am a woman professor, these students may be tempted to treat me differently than they treat jim and they expect me to act differently than they expect jim to act. To the degree that students see me as a woman professor, rather than simply as a professor, they are treating my gender as my master status. In their minds, it seems, my gender affects expectations about how i ought to and will play my role and how they ought to and will respond. In modern society, gender is not the only master status. An individual"s race or ethnicity can also be a filter through which other statuses are perceived. You can assume that racial and ethnic statuses influence people"s perceptions of occupational roles. In our society, we like to think that our achieved statuses are more important than our ascribed statuses.
