Social Structure - Status and Roles

The status of physician can be a(n) ____________ if everyone, no matter the setting, seeks health-related advice from that person.

• ascribed status

• achieved status

• master status

• status set

Sociologists use the word social status to mean a

• role.

• rank.

• prestigious position.

• position in a social structure.

__________ is a largely invisible structure that coordinates human activities in broadly predictable ways.

• A role set

• Impression management

• A social structure

• Social behavior

Joel Goddard is a laid-off Ford worker, a male, a father, and a husband. This sentence describes Goddard’s

• achieved statuses.

• ascribed statuses

• status set.

• social structure.

Ascribed statuses result from

• chance.

• effort.

• ability.

• choice.

Achieved statuses result from

• chance.

• luck.

• fate.

• effort.

Doctor-patient, professor-student, a family, and a large corporation are examples of

• social status.

• social structures.

• organic solidarity.

• mechanical solidarity.

Sometimes one status in a status set is so important to a person’s social identity, it overshadows all other statuses a person occupies. That “so important” status is known as __________ status.

• an achieved

• an ascribed

• a master

• a premier

The distinction between role and status is subtle: people __________ statuses and _____________ roles.

• occupy; enact

• enact; occupy

• choose; take on

• take on; choose

_________________ is behavior expected of a status in relation to another social status.

• An attribution

• A role

• An obligation

• A right