SOC100H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ascribed Status, Symbolic Interactionism, Achieved Status
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To understand concepts, it"s better to find relationships between ideas and theories: conflict theory, functionalism, symbolic interactionism, post modernism. Social structures can be both micro and macro level, between people and institutions institutions. A person"s social position (typically within a hierarchy) with a set of rights and obligations attached: power, life trajectories, differential access to resources, thinking about identity, can tell us if injustices are happening. Achieved status: social position that is earned or received with effort on the individual"s part: ex. being an employee, education. Ascribed status: social position inherited at birth or received involuntarily: ex. race, gender, social class. We occupy many statuses, over the course of our lives or at one time; we are shaped by experiences that are based on our statuses and the ways they intersect or clash. Master status: a position of utmost importance for an individual"s social identity; can be seen as a primary status; master status can always change.
