Achieved status

Achieved status is the concept developed by a anthropologist Ralph Linton for a social position that a grown-up can acquire on the basis of merit as living as is earned or chosen. it is the opposite of ascribed status as well as reflects personal skills, abilities, & efforts. Examples of achieved status are being an Olympic athlete, a criminal, or a college professor.

Status is important sociologically because it comes with a vintage of rights, obligations, behaviors, and duties that people occupying aposition are expected or encouraged to perform. Those expectations are pointed to as ]

Cultural differences around the world

One's status in medieval Europe was primarily based on ascription. People born into the noble a collection of matters sharing a common assigns were likely to keep a high position and people born of peasants were likely to stay in a low position. This political system is requested as feudalism and does not permit for much social mobility.

] That family of social interaction is based mainly on the people's strong abstraction of tradition and to uphold the actions of the past. In 1971, Ernesto Laclau addressed the argument of Latin America was feudalist or capitalist. He determined that the social system was very different from the capitalist system in Europe and the United States and so Latin America would be more closely related to having a feudalist approach to social interaction.

The configuration of a hierarchy differs from the polarities of both given and achieved status. In caste systems, ascription is the overpowering basis for status. Traditional society in South Asia and other parts of the world such as Egypt, India, and Japan were composed of castes. used to refer to every one of two or more people or matters multiple was limited tooccupations. Low-paying occupations such as collecting garbage were reserved for one caste, whose members were excluded from holding all other occupation. Correspondingly, highly-skilled occupations, such as being a priest or a goldsmith, were reserved for another caste.

However, some people managed through talent and luck to rise above their precondition caste. For example, great aptitude as a soldier was often a way toa higher status.