Entry 11
- tschultzleach
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min read
Updated: Oct 11, 2018
Tim Schultz-Leach
10/4/18
Entry 11
Today in class we discussed the differences between ascribed and achieved. We discussed how ascribed is things that are completely out of our control. For instance, being called a boy at birth or being a while male. Something that is ascribed would be something that you are titled with without earning it. The way I look at it is as a way of being labeled by your peers or society as a way to give you meaning without knowing who you actually are. We also learned that achieved is something that you earn. Things like being a father or doctor or some other type of profession in which you work hard to achieve your status. I believe that if more people were to look at peoples achieved statuses versus there ascribed sentences it would be a more broad way to understand the way a person is or why they feel a certain way about things. Finally, we discussed what a status was in sociology. A status would be a position that we acquire in certain types of settings and the roles in which we play in these settings.
I chose this picture and video because it discusses and shows a few examples of both ascribed and achieved statuses.
One way we could potentially do to help people under stand their statuses and roles in society would to try and remove labeling in general. If people aren't constantly labeled as perceived as one thing or another, tensions through our society would drastically die down, at least i believe so anyway.
215 words, three bold words, 1 hypothetical solution, one picture, one video,
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