Socialization and Enculturation: status and roles.ppt

Socialization and enculturation
status and roles, ascribed and achieved status, Understanding Culture, Society, and politics

3. ROLE
ROLE
ROLE

4. What is Status?

5. How about Role/s?

6. Status and Roles
• Are important concepts in
socialization because the behavior
of young members of society are
controlled by assigning them
certain status which they will
enact.

7. Status
• Position in a social system
• Refers to a social position that a
person holds.
• Can be ascribed or achieved, given
or accomplished, respectively

8. SENIOR HIGH
STUDENT
ELDER SIBLING
DAUGHTER BEING A FILIPINO
MALE CHOIR MEMBER
GROUP LEADER TEENAGER
TEAM CAPTAIN HONOR STUDENT

9. Ascribed status
• A social position receives at birth or takes
on involuntarily later in life.

10. Achieved Status
• Social
position a
person takes
on voluntarily
that reflects
personal
identity and
effort.
a position in a social
group that one earns
based on merit or one's
choices. This is in contrast
to an ascribed status, which
is one given by virtue of
birth. Examples of achieved
status include becoming an
athlete, lawyer, doctor,
parent, spouse, criminal,
thief, or a university
professor.

12. Role
• Refers to the behavior expected of
someone who holds a particular status
• A person who holds a status and perform
a role

15. Role Conflict
• Conflict among the roles connected to two
or more statuses.
• Results from the competing demands of
two or more roles that vie for our time and
energy.

18. STATUS ROLES
1. TEACHER
Make lesson plans
Records students’ scores
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