Status attainment

Part One Ascribed Status (pg. 98) – A position an individual either inherits at birth of receives involuntarily later in life. Something I learned from the film that relates to ascribed status is how the people in the slums of Dharavi are typically generational ‘slumdogs’. This means they were probably given this low, economic status and label at birth, and this has been passed down generation from generation. The stigma attached to the label follows as well. With the movie Slumdog Millionaire,…

class. Social status is the position occupied by individual and a part of basic framework of social life. Ascribed status is involuntary and often inherited at birth or received involuntary later in live. Achieved status is voluntary, earned or become, and can be positive or negative. Master status is cutting across or dominates status of others. Status inconsistency is when two statuses do not go together. What is more, roles are behaviors and expectations associated with one’s status. Role…

many households with only one parent and it is more common to have the same sex parents. This is an issue that will likely continue to be studied since the results of this research has concluded that the make-up of the household and socioeconomic status during childhood, may be a factor in the onset of adult…

Numerous factors, including small sample size (76 mothers), little racial diversity (78% White or African American), little economic diversity (many mothers had a low socioeconomic status), enrollment in a parent-training program, and reliance on retrospective reporting, make it difficult to ascertain what populations these findings may be applicable to (Knox, Rosenberger, Sarwar, Mangewala, & Klag, 2015, p. 398). Despite these limitations…

their family to come to the U.S. The economic mobility of my family trends upward while my family rises in socioeconomic status from generation-to-generation. My grandparents are quite secretive about their lifestyle, so it’s unclear exactly how they were able to occupy the social status that they do today. One thing that is apparent in my family is that one’s achieved status is valued greatly. Migrating from Mexico, my grandparents were faced with issue of resocialization. The following…

structures pushes people around and maintains the status quo. Loewen laments about the number of middle class families having dropped steadily since 1967, not rising but lowering in social class. That there is no upward mobility in regards to social ranking without extremist measures being taken. Loewen also discusses that social class directly correlates to the type of medical care or general fitness the person may have due to their social status. For example the poor usually live shorter…

The Age of Moral Devolution In modern times, the common belief was that society was becoming corrupt and immoral because of the vast amounts of wealth that people had achieved over the time period. Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is about how the narrator, Nick’s, life is changed when he becomes the next-door neighbor to one wealthy enigma, Jay Gatsby. Throughout the novel, the reader discovers how money, a higher social class, and the mindless pursuit of these things creates immorality…

Cars have always had a huge impact on Americans and their lives. Americans have the need for speed, the beauty, and the muscle for types of cars. Cars are more than just transportation. They are symbols of who Americans are and what we have done to get there. Like Jay Gatsby in The Great Gatsby, a proclaimed millionaire with all the cars and speed he wants. He loves his cars and they show who this wild man is and what he wants. In the Red Convertible, Henry and Lyman both love the red…

In 1920’s America, people believed in a dream in which anyone, regardless of their name, class, and color, can achieve their own interpretation of success in a world where social mobility is possible for everyone. The American dream is accomplished through sacrifice, valor, and hard work. It grants people the freedom to strive for bigger and exceptional things rather than remaining in one condition for the most of an individual’s life. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby represents the rise and the…

It was each to their own, and this undermined what citizenship stands for. Marshall sums it nicely by saying, “the rights with which the general status of citizenship was invested were extracted from the hierarchal status system of social class, robbing it of its essential substance” (19). The social class system disregarded citizenship and what it stood for. It was dismissed with the belief that social inequity was "necessary and…