Reading Activities and Notes
Chapter 4 Section 1
Status and Roles Comprehension
Directions: Review the first chart. Review the definitions for status and roles and
study the given examples. Answer the question below the chart.
Status
Fire Fighter
Mother
Examples of Roles
1.
2.
3.
4.
Putting fires out
Saving lives
Wearing a uniform
Driving a fire truck
1.
2.
3.
4.
Providing food and shelter
nurturing family
disciplining children
cleaning house
Question: Read the chart above. In the space below, explain the difference between the statuses
and roles.
Complete the following chart by filling in the missing status and roles.
Father
1. Usually, earns money to take care
of the family.
2. Usually makes the major
decisions for the family.
3. Often likes to watch/play sports.
Movie Star
1. Usually, they earn money by
acting.
2. Entertain people.
3. Most of them beautiful hand
handsome.
4. They have specific trait,
especially charming point.
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Reading Activities and Notes
Complete the chart below by reading the directions in each box.
Status
Examples of Roles
1. Study for obtain the knowledge
2. Fallow the school’s rule
3. Doing homework.
4. Respect the teacher.
student
teenager
Concept
1. Usually they go to school and take
education.
2. They play with friend.
3. Helping their parent.
Define the following concepts:
Definition
Status
A socially defined position in a group or in a society.
Master Status
The status that plays the greatest role in shaping a person’s life
and determining his or her social identity.
The behavior-the rights and obligations-expected of someone
occupying a particular.
The different attached to a single statue.
Role
Role Set
Reading Activities and Notes
Status/Role Web Charts
Directions: For the following status web charts below, type in your master status in
the center circle. Then, in the outer circles, state the role set that accompanies the
status by describing the roles in the surrounding circles. Do the same thing for your
secondary status web chart.
Master Status
We have to go
to school every
day for studying
and educating
We
communicate
with other
friend inside
and outside of
class.
Prepare for the
lesson and
review the
lesson
everyday.
Student
I have to follow
the school’s
rule.
Take a
responsibility
for homework
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Secondary Status
They go to
school and
study to get
foundation
knowledge.
Helping parents
and learn house
work.
Being god
citizen, follow
the laws of the
country and the
social.
Teenager
Be faithful to
surrounding
adult because
they always
teach important
norm.
Communicate
with your friend
and other
people.
Define the following concepts:
Concept
Reciprocal Roles
Definition
Corresponding roles that define the
patterns of interaction between related
statues.
Reading Activities and Notes
Role Conflict
One status that makes the difficult to
fulfill the role expectations of another
status.
Occurs when a person has difficulty
meeting the role expectation of a single
status.
Role Strain
Answer the following questions in the space below each item.
1. What is the reciprocal role example provided in the book? List 3 pairs of statuses
that would contain reciprocal roles. Explain why each status has a reciprocal role.
- Teacher, student: teacher give knowledge to student, student receive the
knowledge the knowledge.
- Doctor, patient: doctor cure the patient, patient is cured by doctor.
- Producer, consumer: producer produce good or product for consumer,
consumer consume the goods or product that producer produce.
2. In either of your status web charts above, are their any reciprocal roles that help
define your status. If so, what are the reciprocal roles?
Yes, the reciprocal role of the student is the teacher who gives the knowledge
to student and student receive it from the teacher. .
Complete the chart below:
Directions: Complete the chart below by providing the book example and your
example. In the last two columns describe the differences between Role Strain and
Role Conflict.
Book Example
Role Strain
Role Conflict
The boss who
must maintain
the morals of
workers while
getting them to
work long
periods of
overtime is
likely to
experience role
strain.
Being a good
employee an
individual
needs to go to
work.
However, to be
Your
Example
Similarity
Difference
I am an
employee,
I want
more
money. So
I have to
work on
part time
but I am
lazy. I do
not want
to work a
lot, I want
to sleep.
I join
badminton
team, so
being good
badminton
player
There are
causes of
difficulty to
fulfill each
role.
The problem
happens within
a single role
[role strain] or
between two or
more roles
[role conflict].
Reading Activities and Notes
a good parent,
that individual
needs to stay
home and take
care of a sick
child.
have to
practice it
after
school, but
to be good
member in
the family.
I have to
have
dinner
with them.
They are
waiting for
me.
Review the two Status Webs Charts above and
answer the following questions:

Examine your master status. What are the role strains you experience when
fulfilling your master status? Explain how you experience this strain.
My master status student, my goal is getting a good score. So I have to
reading and doing my HW. But I am lazy to do it, I want to use my time to
relax and sleep. In the same time want I want a good score.

Examine both statuses you identified. What are some possible role conflicts that
might occur between these two statuses? Explain these conflicts and why they
might happen.
The way to be good student I have to do homework and review my lesson.
But at home I have to be a good child for my parents, so have to help them do
house work such as cleaning or baby setting. So I do not have time to review
and do my home work.
Vocabulary Synthesis: For each word, create your own synthesized definition using
your own words. Review the VRS and the notes above. Then, synthesize the two
definitions to create one definition for the key terms below. Do not use the book for
this exercise.
Word
Role
Definition
The position or expectation
that I have to do in a
situation, society and
relationship.
Expectations
Something that you expect it
happens.
Concept Synthesis
Role Expectations: the
expectation that have to
achieve for competing you
role.
Reading Activities and Notes
Ascribed
To believe that someone or
something is cause of
something.
Ascribed Status: the status
that you not have to put a lot
of effort, you just got it from
your parents.
Status
The official position in a
social group.
Achieved
Status
Role
Reaching an aim, especially
after I work hard and put a
lot of effort.
The official position in a
social group.
The position or expectation
that I have to do in a
situation, society and
relationship.
Performance
Achieved Status: the status
that you have to put a lot of
effort to reach that status.
Role Performance:
The action that you have to
perform when you stay in a
situation, society and
relationship.
The action that is done.
Complete the chart below:
Ascribed Status
Achieved Status
Book Example
Your
Example
Similarity
Difference
Your sex, family
heritage and
race,
A person
achieves the
status of
basketball player
because of his or
her physical skill
and knowledge of
the game
My eyes,
hair and
skin’s color.
A doctor’s
degree, the
way to get
this degree
is putting a
lot of effort
and work
hard.
There are
component
that make you
be yourself.
The way to get
these statuses is
different. (do
nothing but get
putting a lot of
effort to get)
1. In your Status Web Charts above, describe whether your statuses are ascribed
statuses or achieved statuses. Explain why!!!
Achieved Status: because the way to be student, I have to work hard and put a
lot of effort, every day I have the responsibility by doing my home work, follow
the school and review the lesson also I have to get a good score for being good
student.
Reading Activities and Notes
2. In the right column list 3 status examples you have not use above. In the second
column, describe at least two role expectations for each example status. Finally,
in the third column, explain each status’s role performance problems.
Status
Role Expectations
Role Performance Problems
Example: Doctor
Example: Treat patients with
skill
Treat patients with care
Honest with patients
Example: Doctor focuses on
making money and ignores
patient needs.
A teacher
An athlete
A cook
In some case, some not good
Giving a lot of knowledge to teacher does not give all of
student, teach to be good
the knowledge to student,
person in the society.
but they are tutor for the
money.
Sometime money is
Being the winner, do the
important so some athlete
best.
pretend to lose for the
money from the rival.
Cooking a high quality and High quality raw material is
delicious food for the
high cost so for putting high
consumer.
quality is less profit.