Achieved status

Image:Surgeon.jpg Achieved status is a sociologicalterm denoting a social positionthat a person assumes voluntarily which reflects personal skills, abilities, and efforts. Examples of achieved status are being an Olympic athelete, being a criminal, or being a teacher.

Achieved status is distinguished from ascribed statusby virtue of being earned. Most positions are a mixture of achievement and ascribment; for instance, a person who has achieved the status of being a doctor is more likely to have the ascribed status of being born into a well-off family.

See also

• Status set
• Ascribed status
• Master status
• Social hierarchy
• Social structure of the United States
• Social class

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