Introduction
Certain people are ranked high in society because thy belong to royal family and respectable cast. All the people and groups of people are not equally respected in society. The position and rank is called society. Every individual hold a certain position in the society with which he is affiliated. This position depends upon the duties he perform. A status can be defined a polar position socially attributed to a member of a group. So the every person in the society have their own different status. Status is simply a collection of rights and the duties and uses as singular. It is cultural value attained through the prescribed ways of behaviour called social roles
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Types of Status
There are following two types of status:
i. Ascribed Status
ii. Achieved Status
i. Ascribed status:
Ascribed status is a position which is assigned to individual by culture, with out reference to their innate abilities. such status is attached with the physical existence to the individual. For instance, cast, age and sex are the ascribed status of an individual. They do not change and permanent in the nature. They begin with life and end with its end.
Determinants of Ascribed status
1. Ancestry:
The honor of a person ancestry rests on legitimacy or illegitimacy, respect of the family and cast system. there are the factor of ascribed status. The child born in a royal family is called prince.
2. Sex:
Biologically the sex have different status in our society. The male is provided higher situation arranged by status as contrast with female. This disparity of status is more winder in rural areas of Pakistan.
3. Caste:
Caste is an important element of status in Indo-Pakistan cultures. Especially in rural areas, caste is given more important. The people attach caste with their names for distinction in community. Some caste are given the higher status and some caste have low status.
4. Age:
Age is one of the important element determines of ascribe status. It has been observed that people are given more respect and honor in our society. Then again youth are dealt with all the more affectionately and causally in our general public.
ii. Achieved Status:
Achieved, the second type of the that status which requires specific qualities from the individual in role performance. These are not assigned to individual birth but are left open for competition and individual efforts.
Determinants of achieved status
Society does not assign status to people randomly. there is criteria of social approval or disapproval, or dishonor to people in societies.
There are following determinants of the social status:
1. Economic status:
This is one of the most important determinants of a person social status. The economic position of an individual can be measured in the society that that functions he preform in the society. And what status a person enjoys in the society, greater the status he occupies in the society.
2. Occupation:
In our society the type of occupation by which one earns money is an important status. For example the sweepers, brokers, cobblers. watchman and other menial servants how so rich can hardly be equivalent to the status of poor Rajputs, small agriculturists.
3. Education:
Education is the most important part of every society. Higher education make a respect in society. The degree and certificates hold from college and university. Education gets the more importance every one have the right to educate in society.
4. Power:
Power is ability to control the influence the behaviour of the others. those who attains the most power in the society are treated more respectfully and their status is consider high .
Social Role
Introduction:
A job is the capability of a status. The person in a general public has been doled out specific privileges and obligations comprising status. These rights and duties when performed is said to have perform rules or corresponding status.
each individual has not one but several social roles depending upon the number of different kinds of relationship he habitually maintains with other. For example he being a teacher in college is husband of his wife a father of several children an active member of the Pakistan sociological. Association a member of his caste and the president of college tennis , club, etc.
Definition:
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A role is the function of the status.
Ascribed and Achieved Roles
The distribution of some of the rules is on the basis of certain traits like sex, race, age and caste which are acquired through birth. These are called ascribed roles in which no function is supported to be performed. There are different jobs which rely on individual capacity. These are accomplished jobs as Graduate degree part. Provincial Assembly and others.
Social Action and Status roles
In the performance of social action the role is the main theme. it is the role of the actor which is social action. therefore in social action the status and role of the actor come into force.
Role Conflict
At the point when at least two than two distinct jobs end up happening in a social circumstance it is called job struggle.