Using your text as your guide, define and apply the following sociological terms (concepts): role, status, status set, master status, ascribed status, achieved status, role conflict, and role strain. Then apply at least five of these terms to your own li

Status Rolls on Real Roles : does it make it a Reel-Life

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Status Rolls on Real Roles : does it make it a Reel-Life

Introduction

With time , the human world has gradually settled down as an organized society as a whole , where everywhere some do-s or don 't-s have been identified , labeled and accepted universally . Out of them , our behavioral process

tops the list with its vast , pattern-weaving nature more because of its utility as a primary tool of communication and a necessity to constantly monitor its flexible nature . By now it is clear to the society that we cannot escape various statuses and the roles that are associated with them even after death . Between , statuses would come and go , so are the roles , perhaps some of us would even be able to surpass their establish Master status to create a new one , some might degrade himself to the lower status In all , status is such an yardstick of the society that we cannot do without - it is a complex and flexible setting through which we would continue to know the world and the world would know us , while both deciding our actions basing on each of our statuses . This essay , thus peeps into this interesting world of status and roles , while bantering on the first date of its writer under the kaleidoscope of Erving Goffman , the revered sociologist

Some Focus on Status

Status locates our position in a given social situation , like when with parents , I am their children , when at class , I am a student , when in a group , a friend , and so on . We are a bundle of statuses , one differing from the other , carrying different responsibilities which command specific approaches to meet them . With time we gain some statuses or loose some but all the while we live within a set of various statuses that helps us in determining our roles at various segments of the society and also helps others to decide on their roles while interacting with us . Much like when I meet my professor at the stadium , then both of us are spectator , and thus both support for our teams , we may even sit in the opposition benches . But back at studies , he is my professor and I am there to learn from him , to see the world of knowledge through his eyes

Status Set

A set of various statuses accompany me everywhere , each of which contains status-specific assignments . This way of thinking helps me picking up the right status and thus the roles assigned to it . That makes it easier for me to avoid dancing Salsa in front of my professor a role that is scheduled for friends ' meet , where I have a status of a good Salsa dancer . Each person 's status set is mostly unique , because it evolves from one 's close environment

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