What is a status?
a position a person occupies within a social structure.
What is an achieved status?
a position or status that is earned or chosen.
What is an ascribed status?
a position or status that is assigned or given to you.
What is a status set?
all of the statuses that a person occupies at any particular time.
What is a master status?
a position that strongly affects most other aspects of a person’s life.
What is a role?
is an expected behavior associated with a particular status.
What is a right?
a behavior that individuals can expect from others.
What is an obligation?
a behavior that individuals are expected to perform towards others.
What is a role performance?
the actual behavior of an individual in a role.
What is social interaction?
the process of influencing each other as people relate.
What is role conflict?
a condition in which the roles of one status conflict with the roles of another status.
What is role strain?
when one role is so large that it conflicts with itself.