Reference no: EM133568611
Case Study: My name is Mariella Lim. I am a wife, a mother, a daughter and a sister and I am also a friend, a brand representative and a fashion and business management student. I was born and raised in the Philippines, and I come from a middle-class background. I love arts, music and traveling and I think traveling is one of the best ways to learn about many things and it can lead one to many self-discoveries.
The three social status that I identify myself with are 1) being a daughter and a sister which is an ascribed status and 2) being a fashion and business management student and 3) a traveler which both are an achieved status. My status as a student is something that I've decided and set my mind into as this was our key for my family to permanently move to a new country and start our new life. My status as traveler is something that I worked hard for, whether it is traveling for leisure or traveling for work. With my status as a daughter and a sister, family is the key social institution that made me these. And with my status as a student, it was education that shaped me into continuously being a student. Finally, as a traveler, it was family and my career or workplace as these two are the ones who helped me and were with me as I go in my travels. A social status from my past that I no longer identify with is being a badminton player. I used to play a lot before I got married, and before I had my daughter. But as life happens, this sport hobby has been put aside for now. Hoping one day soon, I can get back to playing it again.
Based on the 2 paragraphs above. Kindly make a 1-2 paragraph response. The response must engage with relevant course concepts from that week's lesson and assigned reading. The assigned reading is found below:
Identifying You and Me
When I talk about myself as a teacher, student, father, or Canadian, I am identifying myself through a social status. Social statuses help us categorize our identities through the positions we hold in society and how these positions relate to other positions in society (Murray et al., 2014, pp. 119-120). In other words, social statuses, rightly or wrongly, also tend to be arranged based on a hierarchy of prestige. For example, think of the health-care field and how the different professions within it relate to one another: volunteers, cleaners, pharmacists, technicians, nurses, doctors, administrators. All these workers are needed to keep us healthy, but how are these statuses valued differently based on prestige or ranked in terms of importance?
The duties associated with a social status are socially defined. This means that we don't simply make them up on our own.Society helps to develop an understanding about those specific duties. We refer to the duties, or behavioural expectations, that are tied to social statuses as roles.
Questions: For example, think of a teacher you've had and consider the following questions:
- What were your behavioural expectations of the teacher before you met them?
- How did you expect them to speak and present themselves (e.g. how they dress, what they look like) to the class?
- How did those expectations affect your interactions with the teacher?
- From where did those expectations come, anyway?