achieved status

Examples of achieved status in the following topics:

• Gamification in Education

  • Gamification is a technique intended to leverage inclinations toward competition, achievement, status, and self-expression.
  • Gamification techniques are used to leverage natural desires for competition, achievement, status, self-expression, altruism, and closure.
  • Types of rewards include points, achievement badges or levels, the filling of a progress bar, and virtual currency.

• Open vs. Closed Stratification Systems

  • In an open class system, people are ranked by achieved status, whereas in a closed class system, people are ranked by ascribed status.
  • In modern western Europe, status depends on individual educational and professional attainment, meaning that people are ranked based on achieved status.
  • In an open class system, the hierarchical social status of a person is achieved through their effort.
  • Achieved status is a position gained based on merit or achievement (used in an open system).
  • Social mobility is much more frequent in countries that use achievement as the basis for status.

• Social Status

  • One can earn his or her social status by his or her own achievements; this is known as achieved status.
  • Social status is most often understood as a melding of the two types of status, with ascribed status influencing achieved status.
  • Admission, therefore, is an achieved status that was heavily influenced by resources made available by the person's ascribed status.
  • It is easy to see how achieved and ascribed statuses accumulate into the social status of an individual.
  • Discuss the basis of both ascribed and achieved social status and how they influence one another and a person's standing within different groups of society

• Prestige

  • A person can earn prestige by his or her own achievements, which is known as achieved status, or they can be placed in the stratification system by their inherited position, which is called ascribed status.
  • For example, prestige used to be associated with one's family name (ascribed status), but for most people in developed countries, prestige is now generally tied to one's occupation (achieved status).
  • Compare the two types of prestige - achieved and ascribed, and how prestige is related to power, property and social mobility

• Differences in Status

  • There are two elements of social status—those attributes we are born with and those we achieve.
  • Achieved status is what an individual acquires as a result of the exercise of knowledge, ability, talent, skill, and/or perseverance.
  • Status differences can create a bias against those with the perceived lower status.
  • Outsider status can also be a challenge in communication.
  • In the military and other organizations, the status of members affects communication.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • Gemeinschaft community involves ascribed status, meaning a fixed status given by birth.
  • Gemeinschaft community involves ascribed status, meaning a fixed status given by birth.
  • Gesellschaft society involves achieved status, or a status reached by education and professional advancement.

• Social Mobility

  • Most commonly, social mobility refers to the change in wealth and social status of individuals or families.
  • This type of society has an open status system, which functions on the basis of achieved status, or status gained through one's own merit.
  • On the other hand, closed status systems are based on ascribed status.
  • Ascribed status is a fixed position a person is born into, not based on their performance.
  • Compare the various types of social mobiliy, the status systems they exist in, and their status between countries and over time.

• Weber's View of Stratification

  • Max Weber formed a three-component theory of stratification in which social difference is determined by class, status, and power.
  • According to Weberian theory, a member of the United States Congress is an example of someone who is high in the social hierarchy due to status and power, although they have relatively low economic status.
  • Class is a person's economic position in a society, based on birth and individual achievement.
  • Status refers to a person's prestige, social honor, or popularity in a society.
  • Weber noted that political power was not rooted solely in capital value, but also in one's individual status.

• Destabilizing the Status Quo

  • Knowing the status quo will be very helpful when you are trying to explain your argument.
  • There are several common strategies for destabilizing the status quo.
  • When choosing how you want to destabilize the status quo, remember to be specific.
  • If you achieve both those things, your destabilization should convince the reader that they have a problem even if they did not think they had one before.
  • You will need to use the status quo to generate consequences for readers, and the way to do so is to convince them that there is a problem in the status quo.

• Religion and Social Control

  • Marx viewed religion as a tool of social control used by the bourgeoisie to keep the proletariat content with an unequal status quo.
  • From a Marxist perspective, these expectations become part of religion's ability to control society and maintain the status quo.
  • According to Marx, in a capitalist society, religion plays a critical role in maintaining an unequal status quo, in which certain groups of people have radically more resources and power than other groups of people.
  • Only then would this class of people be able to rise up against the bourgeoisie and gain control of the means of production, and only then would they achieve real rewards, in this life.
  • He believed that it was a tool of social control used to maintain an unequal status quo, and that it should be abolished.