Statuses and Roles

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Statuses and Roles
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Status defined position in society

• Ascribed (born with, reached a certain age)
• Achieved (through your efforts)
• Master status (defines you)

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Roles behaviors (rights, obligations) expected
of someone with a certain status
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• Role expectation behaviors of a person
  performing certain roles (doctors should know
  medicine)
• Role performance actual role behavior (parents
  should nurture, but sometimes ignore children)

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• Role set different roles attached to a single
  status

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• Role conflict filling the role of one status
  makes it difficult to fill others
• Role strain difficulty meeting the roles of one
  status

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• Social institutions set of organized beliefs
  and rules that establish how a society will meet
  basic social needs