Individual social status, as used in sociology, refers to the honour or prestige associated with a person’s place in society (social position). It may also be used to describe a status or role that a person has within a group, such as playmate, student, son or daughter, etc.
There are two methods to establish someone’s social status, which is their place or standing in society. Attained status is a social standing that an individual can get via personal accomplishments. Ascribed status, another term for one’s inherited position, can also be used to assign someone to a stratification system. Statuses that are assigned to a person at birth are another way to describe them. Sex, age, race, ethnicity, and family history are among the ascribed statuses that are present in all communities. An individual raised in an affluent home, for instance, with attributes like popularity, skill, and moral integrity, is certain to have high expectations. Consequently, when he or she is socially positioned within a family and acquires all these qualities and attributes, he or she is assigned and taught several social roles. Achieved statuses also refer to the things that a person learns over their lifetime via the application of their knowledge, aptitude, skill, and/or persistence. A person’s employment may serve as an example of status that can be earned or assigned. A person can develop their social identity within their occupation by acquiring the necessary information and skills to place themselves socially higher in their line of work. Actors in a social setting conceptualize roles as a collection of interconnected actions, rights, and duties. It might have a specific particular social rank or position and is an expected, voluntary, or ever-changing conduct. The State’s definition of an “individual” is impersonal and mechanical; individuality is not that. An individual is more than the sum of their environment, genetics, and cause and effect. He is that and so much more, so much more than that. The living man is an indefinable whole, the source of all life and all values; he is neither this nor that; he is a unique entire, a complete that is ever-growing and ever-changing yet never changes.
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Role in society
To understand the individual role in society it seems better to highlight the role of family, school, society, and individual which are affecting each other.
1. The human family protects the young ones, thus illustrating the fact that the species comes into existence for more than procreation.
2. Society developing the weaker members is an extension of the role of the family.
3. School offers organized education.
4. Family and society precede and succeed the school in offering institutionalized cultural education and education that is not yet fully organized.
5. Society creates the individual and submits to his leading it.
6. The final aim of the individual is to create a society where every individual is fully evolved.
7. Family trains by social authority, school by the authority of knowledge, and society by its subconscious wisdom.
8. In his growth the individual moves from physically inherited habits to opinion and attitude and finally by his motive.
9. Opinion of the mind and attitude of the vital are superseded by the motive of the being.
10. Society fulfills itself when it discovers the wisdom, that it developed in the individual.
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