Living in society, one cannot be free from it.During life, a person comes into contact with a large number of other individuals and groups into which they belong. At the same time in each of them he takes his specific place. To analyze the situation of a person in each group and society as a whole, such concepts as social status and social role are used. Let us consider in more detail what it is.
The meaning of the term and general characteristics
The word "status" originates from ancient Rome. Then it was more of a legal connotation, rather than a sociological one, and meant the legal status of any organization.
Now social status is the position of a person in a particular group and society as a whole, which gives him certain rights, privileges, and duties in relation to other members.
It helps people interact better with each other.a friend. If a person of a certain social status does not fulfill his duties, he will be responsible for this. So, an entrepreneur who sews clothes to order, if he fails to meet deadlines, will pay a penalty. In addition, his reputation will be ruined.
Examples of the social status of one person are a schoolboy, son, grandson, brother, sports club member, citizen, and so on.
This is a certain characteristic of a person according to his professional qualities, material and family situation, age, education and other criteria.
Человек одновременно может входить сразу в several teams and, accordingly, play not one, but many different roles. Therefore, talking about status sets. Each person is unique and individual.
Types of social statuses, examples
Их диапазон достаточно широк.There are statuses obtained at birth, and there are those acquired during life. Those that attributes a society to a person, or those that he achieves through his own efforts.
Allocate the main and passing social statusperson Examples: the main and universal, in fact, the man himself, then comes the second - this is a citizen. The list of main statuses also includes blood, economic, political, religious. The list can be continued.
Episodic is a passer-by, patient, participantstrikes, buyer, visitor to the exhibition. That is, such statuses for the same person can change quite quickly and periodically repeat.
Prescribed social status: examples
Это то, что человек получает от рождения, biologically and geographically defined characteristics. Until recently, it was impossible to influence them and change the situation. Examples of social status: gender, nationality, race. These preset parameters remain with a person for life. Although in our progressive society we have already threatened to change gender. So one of the listed statuses to some extent ceases to be prescribed.
Much of what is related to kinship will also be considered as prescribed. This is the father, mother, sister, brother. And husband and wife are already acquired statuses.
Status achieved
This is what a person seeks for himself.Making efforts, making a choice, working, studying, each individual eventually comes to certain results. His success or failure is reflected in the attribution of the well-deserved status to him. The doctor, the director, the president of the company, the professor, the thief, the man without a certain residence, the tramp.
Almost every social status achieved by an individual has its own distinctions. Examples:
- the military, security officials, employees of the internal troops - uniform and shoulder straps;
- doctors have white coats;
- people who break the law have tattoos on their body.
Community roles
Understand how an object will behave,will help the social status of the person. Examples and confirmation of this we find constantly. Expectations in the behavior and appearance of the individual, depending on his belonging to a particular class, are called social roles.
So, the status of the parent obliges to be strict, butfair to your child, take responsibility for it, teach, give advice, prompt, help in difficult situations. The status of a son or daughter is, on the contrary, a certain subordination to parents, legal and material dependence on them.
But despite some regularitiesbehavior, each person has a choice of how to act. Examples of social status and its use by a person do not fit one hundred percent into the proposed framework. There is only a scheme, a certain pattern, which each individual realizes according to his abilities and ideas.
It often happens that combine severalsocial roles one person is difficult. For example, the first role of a woman is mother, wife, and her second role is a successful business woman. Both roles involve the investment of effort, time, full return. There is a conflict.
Analysis of the social status of the individual, an example of his actions in life allow us to conclude that he reflects not only the inner position of a person, but also influences his appearance, manner of dressing, and speaking.
Рассмотрим примеры социального статуса и related standards in appearance. Thus, a bank director or founder of a solid company cannot appear in the workplace in sports pants or rubber boots. And the priest is to come to church in jeans.
The status that a person has achieved makes him pay attention not only to his appearance and behavior, but also to choose a circle of friends, a place of residence, and learning.
Prestige
Not the last role in the fate of people plays suchconcept as prestige (and positive, from the point of view of the majority, social status). Examples in the questionnaire, which is written by students of all senior classes before entering higher educational institutions, we find with ease. Often they make their choice based on the prestige of a particular profession. Now few of the boys dream of becoming an astronaut or a pilot. And once it was a very popular profession. Choose between lawyers and financiers. So dictates the time.
Conclusion: a person develops as a person in the process of mastering various social statuses and roles. The brighter the dynamics, the more adapted to life will be the individual.
