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What is the difference between status and role?
What is the difference between status and role?
- Status refers to a person's behavior while role refers to their social position
- Status refers to a social position while role refers to a person's behavior (correct)
- Status and role are interchangeable terms
- Status and role have no relation to each other
What is the difference between ascribed and achieved status?
What is the difference between ascribed and achieved status?
- Ascribed status is based on personal ability and achievements, while achieved status is based on birth or kinship.
- Ascribed status and achieved status are the same thing.
- Ascribed status is based on birth or kinship, while achieved status is based on personal ability and achievements. (correct)
- Ascribed status and achieved status are both based on personal ability and achievements.
What is a status set?
What is a status set?
- A person's behavior in a social position
- Multiple social positions (correct)
- A single social position
- The value attached to a social position
What is the relationship between status and prestige?
What is the relationship between status and prestige?
What is an ascribed status?
What is an ascribed status?
What is role conflict?
What is role conflict?
What is prestige?
What is prestige?
Who faces role conflict?
Who faces role conflict?
What are social expectations?
What are social expectations?
What generates intense role conflict for men and women in Khasi matriliny?
What generates intense role conflict for men and women in Khasi matriliny?
What is role conflict?
What is role conflict?
What is the impact of role stereotyping?
What is the impact of role stereotyping?
What generates intense role conflict for men in Khasi matriliny?
What generates intense role conflict for men in Khasi matriliny?
Are social roles and status fixed and unchanging?
Are social roles and status fixed and unchanging?
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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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