Examples of master status in the following topics:
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- Conflict theory is particularly interested in the various aspects of master status in social position—the primary identifying characteristic of an individual seen in terms of race or ethnicity, sex or gender, age, religion, ability or disability, and socio-economic status.
- When we are analyzing any element of society from this perspective, we need to look at the structures of wealth, power and status, and the ways in which those structures maintain social, economic, political and coercive power of one group at the expense of others.
- According to conflict theorists, the family works toward the continuance of social inequality within a society by maintaining and reinforcing the status quo.
- Because inheritance, education and social capital are transmitted through the family structure, wealthy families are able to keep their privileged social position for their members, while individuals from poor families are denied similar status.
- According to conflict theorists, the family works toward the continuance of social inequality within a society by maintaining and reinforcing the status quo.
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- In eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century America, the legal status of married women was defined as "coverture," meaning a married woman (or feme covert) had no legal or economic status independent of her husband.
- Married women’s status as femes covert did not change as a result of the American Revolution, and wives remained economically dependent on their husbands.
- It involved a slave woman named Celia and her master, Robert Newsome.
- After being purchased at the age of 14 in 1850, Celia bore two of her master's children.
- Thus, because the sexual abuser was her master, the murder was not justified on the claim of self-defense.
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- Children, free women,
indentured servants, and black men also endured similar treatment from their
masters, or even their masters' children or relatives.
- Beginning
in 1662, Southern colonies adopted into law the principle of partus sequitur
ventrem, by which children of slave women took the status of their mother
regardless of the father's identity.
- This was a departure from English common
law, which held that children took their father's status.
- Slave breeding
involved coerced sexual relations between male and female slaves, as well as
sexual relations between a master and his female slaves, with the intention of
producing slave children.
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- The status of African Americans, including
escaped slaves from the South, was an issue in flux while the Civil War was
being fought.
- By August of the same year, Congress determined via the
Confiscation Act that the United States would not return escaped slaves to their former
Confederate masters.
- The day after Butler's decision, many more escaped slaves found their way to Fort Monroe and appealed for contraband status.
- By the end of the war in April 1865, less than four years later, an estimated 10,000 escaped slaves had applied to gain contraband status, with many living nearby.
- Analyze the in-between status of many "contraband" slaves during the Civil War
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- Slave codes were laws that were established in each state to define the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
- They were
used to determine the status of slaves and the rights of their owners.
- In Virginia, slaves were not permitted to drink in public within one mile of
their master or during public gatherings.
- Slaves were allowed to
hire their services and live apart from their masters, and free blacks were
even allowed to live in the city and operate schools.
- Slaves were kept tightly in control through the establishment of slave codes, or laws dictating their status and rights.
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- Inside the naos is a two-story row of columns around the interior and set in front of the columns is the cult statue of Athena.
- The cult statue of the Parthenon was a huge chryselephantine statue of Athena Parthenos sculpted by Phidias .
- The statue was made out of ivory, silver, and gold and had a wooden core support.
- Her shield stood upright at her left side and her left hand rested on it while in her right hand she held a statue of Nike.
- These scenes are the most preserved of the metopes and demonstrate how Phidias mastered fitting episodic narrative into square spaces.
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- At the time illuminated manuscripts were considered treasured works of high craft; to own books indicated wealth, status, and taste.
- When, in the early to mid 15th century, manuscripts were held in higher regard than panel paintings, masters would often produce single leaf illustrations to be almost randomly inserted into precious books, as a means for the master to display and advertise his skill.
- There was considerable overlap between panel painting and illumination, and by the second half of the century large manuscript commissions were often shared between several different masters, with more junior painters, including many women, assisting, especially in producing the increasingly elaborate border decoration.
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- Proponents of slavery argued that it protected slaves, masters, and society as a whole.
- Southern proslavery theorists asserted that slavery prevented any such attempted movement toward equality by elevating all free people to the status of "citizen" and removing the landless poor (the "mudsill") from the political process entirely.
- In the mindset of proslavery men, therefore, slavery protected the common good of slaves, masters, and society as a whole.
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- Status inconsistency occurs when an individual's social positions are varied and these variations influence his or her overall social status.
- Status inconsistency is a situation where an individual's social positions have both positive and negative influences on his or her social status.
- For example, a teacher may have a positive societal image (respect, prestige, etc.), which increases her status but she may earn little money, which simultaneously decreases her status.
- Sociologists investigate issues of status inconsistency in order to better understand status systems and stratification, and because some sociologists believe that positions of status inconsistency might have strong effects on people's behavior.
- Gerhard Lenski originally predicted that people suffering from status inconsistency would favor political actions and parties directed against higher status groups.
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- These sculptures were either free-standing statues or relief sculptures and friezes incorporated into temples; they are characterized by their delicacy and serenity of expression.
- Built in the 8th century, Borobudur is the largest Buddhist temple in the world and is supposed to represent a map of the Buddhist cosmos; it is a masterful combination of didactic narrative sculptures, spiritual symbolism, monumental design, and meditative serenity.
- As part of its structure, it has 504 statues of the Buddha and 2,672 relief panels depicting the life of the Buddha.
- The last three levels simply contain stupas and statues of the Buddha.