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1. COURSE: GLOBAL STUDIES II
YEAR: 2015
University of South East- Asia
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2. Chapter 2 Society and Social
Groups
UNIT 5 SOCIAL STATUS
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3. Social Status
STATUS
- In sociology, status refer to the
position that an individual occupies.
It doesn’t matter who you are, whether
rich or poor, every person has
status/es they occupy.
It may be of great prestige (lawyer,
astronaut, etc.) or very little prestige (
fast food attendant, valet, etc.)

4. SOCIAL STATUS
- a large number of people with similar
amounts of income and education who
work at jobs that are roughly
comparable in prestige.

5. STATUS SET
Sociologist use the term status set to
refer to all the statuses or positions
that you occupy.
You may be a daughter, sister, cousin,
classmate, friend, employee, and
spouse at the same time.

6. Ascribed status and Achieved
status
ASCRIBED STATUS
 involuntary
 you inherited them at birth
 race, sex, parents’ social class

7. Ascribed status and Achieved
status
ACHIEVED STATUS
 voluntary
 you earn or accomplish these
 these are the results of your efforts: to
be a student, a friend, a spouse, a
minister, a priest, a doctor, etc.)
 or results of your lack of effort: you
became a school dropout, a former
friend, a former husband, you became
a beggar, etc.

8. Ascribed and achieved
statuses
A person can have a combination of
ascribed and achieved statuses.
Take into consideration Princess Diana
of Wales: she was a wife, mother and
Princess of Wales. Her being a
princess is achieved because she
married Prince Charles.
When they divorced, it was also an
achieved status of being a divorcee, a
former Princess, and former wife.

10. STATUS SYMBOLS
These are items that are used to identify a
status
e.g.
Uniforms for students, police, firefighters,
etc.
IDs for different positions and companies
Wedding rings for married people
Aprons for cooks and chefs
Business suits and ties for corporate
people, etc.

12. Master statuses
 A master status is something that cuts
across the other statuses that you hold.
 It can be something ascribed ( male or
female) or achieved (being wealthy).
 It is something that people recognized
you most of all.
 Just like in the case of Stephen Hawking:
he is a very intelligent person in the field
of physics, but people also see him as a
disabled person, suffering from Lou
Gehrig’s disease.

14. Roles
Roles are the behaviors, obligations and
privileges attached to a status.
The difference between role and status is
that you occupy a status, but you play a
role (Linton, 1936).
Our roles are a sort of fence that helps
keep us doing what society wants us to
do.
It make us know what is appropriate, for
us to know what are the things we can
and cannot do.

16. Groups
A group consists of people who
regularly and consciously interact with
one another.
The members of the group share similar
values, norms, and expectations.
The groups to which we belong
represent powerful forces in our lives.