Sociology Case

Sociology

Question: During slavery and colonialism, status in Caribbean society was largely ascribed. Explain why status determination is based more on achievement and less on ascription in contemporary Caribbean society.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, achievement is the successful accomplishment of, or performance in, a socially defined task or goal doing and ascription is allocating/assigning roles and statuses, or imputing allegedly natural behaviors, by kinship, age, sex and ethnicity. In historical times, during slavery and colonialism, status in the Caribbean was largely ascribed. According to the Haralambos and Holborn Sociology Themes and Perspectives, status is social positions in society for example, doctor or teacher and it is useful because it contributes to keeping a balanced society. Talcott Parsons, sociologist and functionalist, argued that stratification systems derived from common values and that in contemporary Caribbean society, achieved status would become dominant over ascribed status.

Social stratification refers to a situation in which people are divided into distinct groups ranked at different levels. It was introduced to the Caribbean by the Europeans. They used this as a method to maintain their dominance over society. In slavery and colonial times, stratification was based on race and color in that Africans were automatically classed as slaves and whites automatically became the elites of society although the whites were the minority, they maintained their dominance by a rigidly stratified system....

Sociology

Question: During slavery and colonialism, status in Caribbean society was largely ascribed. Explain why status determination is based more on achievement and less on ascription in contemporary Caribbean society.

According to the Oxford Dictionary of Sociology, achievement is the successful accomplishment of, or performance in, a socially defined task or goal doing and ascription is allocating/assigning roles and statuses, or imputing allegedly natural behaviors, by kinship, age, sex and ethnicity. In historical times, during slavery and colonialism, status in the Caribbean was largely ascribed. According to the Haralambos and Holborn Sociology Themes and Perspectives, status is social positions in society for example, doctor or teacher and it is useful because it contributes to keeping a balanced society. Talcott Parsons, sociologist and functionalist, argued that stratification systems derived from common values and that in contemporary Caribbean society, achieved status would become dominant over ascribed status.

Social stratification refers to a situation in which people are divided into distinct groups ranked at different levels. It was introduced to the Caribbean by the Europeans. They used this as a method to maintain their dominance over society. In slavery and colonial

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