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What is the difference between status and role?
Status refers to a social position while role refers to a person's behavior
What is the difference between ascribed and achieved status?
Ascribed status is based on birth or kinship, while achieved status is based on personal ability and achievements.
What is a status set?
Multiple social positions
What is the relationship between status and prestige?
Status and prestige are interconnected
What is an ascribed status?
A social position occupied because of birth or assumed involuntarily
What is role conflict?
When an individual has multiple roles that are conflicting.
What is prestige?
The value attached to a social position
Who faces role conflict?
Both men and women
What are social expectations?
The behavior expected from a person in a social position
What generates intense role conflict for men and women in Khasi matriliny?
Matrilineal system
What is role conflict?
The contrary expectations arising from two or more roles
What is the impact of role stereotyping?
It reinforces specific roles for members of society.
What generates intense role conflict for men in Khasi matriliny?
Khasi matriliny itself
Are social roles and status fixed and unchanging?
No, they are not fixed and unchanging.
Study Notes
- Status refers to a social position with defined rights and duties.
- A role is the behavioral aspect of a status.
- Every individual occupies many different kinds of status during their life.
- In a modern society, individuals occupy multiple status, which is called a status set.
- An ascribed status is a social position occupied because of birth or assumed involuntarily.
- An achieved status is a social position occupied voluntarily by personal ability, achievements, virtues, and choices.
- Prestige is the value attached to a social position, rather than to the person who occupies it.
- People perform their roles according to social expectations.
- Role conflict occurs when contrary expectations arise from two or more roles.
- Khasi matriliny generates intense role conflict for men.
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