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What is the difference between ascribed status and achieved status?
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Ascribed is what you are doing to get to a specified status. Achieved would mean you have done all required to obtain that status.
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one can change for an individual and the other cannot -apex
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What is the primary difference between ascribed status and a achieved status?
Ascribed role of status is something that comes to you as a result of inheritance. In contrast achieved role or status is something that comes to you because of what you have done or accomplished.
What is the major difference between an achievement status and an ascribed status?
Ascribed Status: Ascribed status is assigned to an individual without reference to their innate differences or abilities. (Meaning this cannot change for an individual) Achieved Status: Achieved status is determined by an individual's performance or effort. (Meaning this changes for an Individual) -This was a study conducted by Anthropologist Ralph Linton in (1936)
How can an individual's ascribed status be an important determinant of his or her achieved status?
Ascribed statuses are received at birth, later you gain achieved satuses. For instance suzy is born female (ascribed status) and she has a child and becomes a MOTHER (achieved status).
What does status mean in sociology?
Status a position that a person occupies within a social structure. Mainly who and what we are in relation to others who are similar to us. There are two main types of status's: ascribed status and achieved status. Ascribed status is a position that is neither earned nor chosen but rather one that is assigned like gender and age. Achieved status is a position that is earned or chosen like marrying or working at a certain job.
What is an ascribed status?
It can be defined as followed. A status that can not be earned, it is assigned.
to what extent is a person's status ascribed at birth?
An ascribed status is a social status that a person is given from birth or assumes later in life
What is the difference between Masters and Ph.D minor?
It is more higher in its degree and you can get a higher paying job when you achieved the PH.D status.
Which of these is an ascribed status?
brother
How does ascribed status influence achieved status?
Which of the following represents an achieved status? A) being a high school drop-out B) acting like your mother when she was your age C) having a prescribed sex (male or female) D) knowing your particular ethnic descent
What is the term for social position that is received at birth or involuntarily assumed later in life?
ascribed status
Which position of leadership is an ascribed position?
a chief's status is ascribed, meaning it is inherited.
An ascribed status is a social position?
Ascribed status is something that you are born into. Such as royal families. They are born, or ascribed, into their social status.
