SOCA01H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Impression Management, Personal Identity, Erving Goffman
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Status: a position in relation to other people. Examples: a hockey player, a restaurant server, a human resource specialist, social worker, a sex trade worker, a father, a sister, a best friend, a voter. Roles: expected behaviour of a person in a particular status (shaffir and pawluch follow parsons: responsibilities and privileges of a status) A status describes what one is, a role describes what one does. An ascribed status: usually once a person is born into (e. g. class) or imposed by nature, usually considered as unchangeable. The all-india census 1868-1871: gender categories understandable to the british, but not to many indian communities. An achieved status: earned or chosen by the actor (e. g. class), usually considered as changeable. Ascribed statuses often influence achievement of statuses. Us: an increased number of divorces of middle class couples, caused by husbands" inability to abandon norms of managerial role at home.