Master status

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3. Master status

4. Master status
• Many people have different kinds of
statuses that effect their lives everyday.
Some statuses include, being a mother,
father, a teacher, student or manager

5. Master status
• The term was coined by Everett Hughes
seventy years ago to indicate a
characteristic that, from the perspective of
other people, floods out other aspects of a
person’s identity

6. What is amaster status?
• In Sociology, master status is the social
position which is the primary
identifying characteristic of an individual.

7. What is amaster status?
A status that has exceptional importance for
social identity , often shaping a person's
entire life…
Defination according to Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_status

8. What is a Your status?
• As a student Your master status is your
most important status and people tend to
interact with you on its basis….

9. Others…!!!
• Apart from student, some other statuses
that you might hold are daughter/son,
girlfriend/boyfriend, worker, athlete, and so
forth…

12. Each status has related roles..
As a teacher/instructor :
Students expect that I will show up to
class, on time, neatly dressed, having
prepared a lesson to teach, and that I
have considerable knowledge of the
material.

13. Each status has related roles..
As a Students :
That they will show up to class, on time ,
appropriately dressed and prepared for
class.

14. Role conflict
• Role conflict is the sociological term used
to describe incompatibility between roles.

15. Role conflict Example..
• For student and an employee or a friend.
If I have a lot of homework or I have to do
a project, then I may have to cancel any
plans with my friends or cancel going to
work

16. Examples of Master Status?
Here are some examples of master status:
race, gender, extreme wealth and physical
disability or illness.
• Via
http://www.ask.com/question/examples-of-
master-status

17. Bottom Line
The master status affects how the individual
behaves and how others behave with
respect to her or him in almost every given
situation.
• Every one have different statuses in life
with Master Status.

18. Your Status
• SO WHAT IS YOUR MASTER
STATUS…………??

19. Reference and Work
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Master_status
• http://sociology.about.com/od/M_Index/g/
Master-Status.htm
• http://www.ask.com/question/examples-of-
master-status
• http://www.everydaysociologyblog.com/.se
rvices/blog/6a00d83534ac5b69e200d8353
4ad4169e2/search?filter.q=master+status