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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
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What is the defining quality of hate crimes?
They are motivated by bias against someone's ascribed status.
What five social characteristics can influence the opinions a person holds?
The characteristics that can influence ones opinions are Wealth and Income, Gender, Political Status, Religion, Ethnicity/Race and Social Class. Hope that was helpful.
Russia achieved liberation from Mongol rule after?
The entire process of casting off the Mongol rule took place between 1450 and 1480. Russia acquired the administrative skills needed to be independent from years of Mongol influence. It was this influence which helped create a Russia ready to reform its own government and begin expanding.
Which political leader ascribed most closely to their vision for society?
Vladimir Lenin during the Russian Revolution
What country achieved independence in 1811?
In South America, Paraguay achieved independence from Spain in 1811.
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 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 difference between ascribed status and achieved status?
Ascribed is what you are doing to get to a specified status. Achieved would mean you have done all required to obtain that status.
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)
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
Which of these is an ascribed status?
brother
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 monarch is an example of an ascribed position of leadership. This means that the leader is born into the position and does not have to earn it through merit or competition.
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.
Which of these is a characteristic of a caste system?
ascribed status
