Lecture on Social Status and Role
- 1. TOPIC: SOCIAL STATUS & ROLE Dr. Zahid Zulfiqar Rana PhD Sociology (GCUF) ranazahidzulfiqar@gmail.com
- 2. STATUS Position in a social system is called status , such as child or parent (Linton, 1936). Status is a position in the general institutional system, recognized and supported by the entire society spontaneously evolved rather than deliberately created, rooted in the folkways and mores (Kingsley Davis). Status refers to what a person is.
- 3. STATUS Any recognized position assigned by the society to its members is called status.
- 4. STATUS SET A status set is a collection of social statuses that an individual holds. A person may have status of a daughter, wife, mother, student, worker, School member and a citizen. The term "status set" was coined by Robert K. Merton in 1957
- 5. MASTER STATUS In sociology, the master status is the social position that is the primary identifying characteristic of an individual. The term master status is defined as "a status that has exceptional importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life." Master status can be ascribed or achieved.
- 9. TYPES OF SOCIAL STATUS ASCRIBED STATUS ACHIEVED STATUS
- 10. ASCRIBED STATUS Ascribed Statuses are those which are fixed for an individual at birth.
- 11. DETERMINANTS OF ASCRIBED STATUS Sex Age Race Ethnicity Family back ground
- 12. ACHIEVED STATUS The statuses about which the person has some choice, however much or little, are achieved statuses. Any position achieved by the individuals in the society is called Achieved status.
- 13. ACHIEVED STATUS The traditional societies stressed the Ascribed status whereas the modern and civilized societies mainly based on the Achieved Status.
- 14. EXAMPLES OF ACHIEVED STATUS DOCTOR ENGINEER PROFESSOR BUSNIESSMEN ACCOUNTANT
- 16. Determinants of Achieve Status Economic Status Education Occupation Power
- 17. ROLE CONFLICT Role conflict results from the competing demands of two or more roles than via for our time and energy. The more statuses we have, and the more roles we take on, the more likely we are to experience role conflict. There was a conflict between his roles as a family member and official at a time is the result of role
- 18. ROLE CONFLICT
- 20. ROLE STRAIN • Role strain occurs when we have trouble meeting the social roles expected of us. People can also experience both role conflict (when two roles have demands that are mutually exclusive) and role overload (when one doesn't have the resources to meet the demands of multiple roles) • Tension among the roles connected to a single status
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