Evaluate the role of an individual in the
development of any society?
Course: Citizenship Education and Community Engagement
Course code 8606
Level: B.Ed Solved Assignment
ANSWER
Individual Status and his/her Role in Society
In sociology, individual social
status is the honor or prestige attached to one's position in society (one's
social position). It may also refer to a rank or position that one holds in a group,
for example, son or daughter, playmate, pupil, etc. Social status, the
position or rank of a person or group within society, can be determined in two ways. One can earn his or her social
status through one's own achievements, which is known as achieved status. Alternatively,
one can be placed in the stratification system by his or her inherited
position, which is called ascribed status. Ascribed statuses can also be
defined as those that are fixed for an individual at birth. Ascribed statuses
that exist in all societies include those based on sex, age, race ethnic
group, and family background. For example, a person born into a wealthy family
characterized by traits such as popularity, talents, and high values will have
many expectations growing up.
Therefore, he or she is given and
taught many social roles as he or she is socially positioned into a family
becoming equipped with all these traits and characteristics. Achieved statuses
meaning also what the individual acquires during his or her lifetime as a
result of the exercise of knowledge, ability, skill, and/or perseverance.
Occupation provides an example of status that may be either ascribed or
achieved, it can be achieved by one gaining the right knowledge and skill to
become socially positioned into a higher position in that job; building a
person’s social identity within the occupation.
A
role or a
social role is a set of connected behaviors, rights, and obligations as conceptualized by actors in a social
situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may
have a given individual social status or social position. Individuality is not the impersonal and mechanistic thing that the State treats as an “individual". The individual is not
merely the result of heredity and environment, of cause and effect. He is that
and a great deal more, a great deal else. The living man cannot be defined; he
is the fountainhead of all life and all values; he is not a part of this or of
that; he is a whole, an individual whole, a growing, changing, yet always
constant whole. For understanding the individual role in society it seems
better to highlight the role of family, school, society, and individual which
are affecting each other.
1. Human family protects the young ones, thus
illustrating the fact that the species comes into existence for more than
procreation.
2. Society developing the weaker members is an
extension of the role of the family.
3. School offers organized education.
4. Family and society precede and succeed the
school in offering institutionalized cultural education and education that is
not yet fully organized.
5. Society creates the individual and submits to
his leading it.
6. The final aim of the individual is to create
a society where every individual is fully evolved.
7. Family trains by social authority, school by
the authority of knowledge, and society by its subconscious wisdom.
8. In his growth the individual moves from
physically inherited habits to opinion and attitude and finally by his own motive.
9. Opinion of the mind and attitude of the vital
are superseded by the motive of the being.
10. Society fulfills itself when it discovers the
wisdom, that it developed in the
individual
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