SOCIAL STATUS WITH

FAMILY
PRESENTATION BY:
C K INITHA KRISHNAPPA
3RD SEM BCA
20BCA011
 DEFINITION OF STATUS

Social status refers to a position one holds in a society or group.

Status implies the position or the rank one holds in a social group.

Status is position that one holds in a given system.

 EXAMPLES OF STATUS

Father,
Mother,
Teacher,
And employer ,etc.

Are some of the examples of status

 EXPLANATION

Every status holder is a role performer

In a social group, every member has a status role position.
All status roles do not command similar position authority; or the social
recognition authority. Status-role of a father, as the head of a family, in
patriarchal society, like that of ours differs, from his status-role in a
matriarchal society.
 Women are everywhere the same, but their status-role in our society, in
several ways differs from women in the Arab or in a western society in a
similar situation.
 FAMILY

 In terms of sociology: A primary social group consisting of parents and their

offspring, the principal function of which is provision for its members.

 In a family any family members can take a roles of holding social status.

Family social status is based on following bases:

 Occupation
 Income source
 Associations
 OCCUPATION

What a person does for a living.

It is an indicator of other signs of class membership: income,
personal associations, and status.
 Further, class assumptions within an occupation may be based on
performance level.
 ASSOCIATIONS

Consumption patterns and interaction networks are inherently linked.

People tend to associate with others that share the same tastes and
recreational activities.
 Class consciousness – sense of belonging to a certain class is reinforced
by our associations. The higher our class the more class conscious we
are. A mechanic wins a $50 million in the lottery…will his/her social
class change?
 INCOME SOURCE

Level of income is not by itself a good indicator of class.

Income source along with occupation may help us determine whether two
individuals that have the same income belong in the same class: investments,
inheritance, old wealth, etc.
Does a professional athlete making $20 million belong in the same social
class with a physician making $150,000
 FAMILY SOCIAL STATUS ANALYSIS

 The social status of family is realized by wealth, power, and

prestige which is not equally distributed in society.

This unequal distribution of resources reflected a social hierarchy

composed of families with different class interests based on the
amount of wealth, power, and prestige that they controlled.
 SOCIAL STATUS WITH FAMILY IS ALSO BASED
ON THIS 3 MAIN BASIS
1. Economic basis: 3. Political Implications:
a. Occupation i. Power
b. Wealth j. Class Consciousness
c. Income
d. Poverty

2. Social Basis:
e. Prestige
f. Association
g. Socialization
h. Social mobility
 REFERENCES

 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4354882/#:~:text=Families'%20social%20status%20wa
s%20calculated,parents%20in%20dual%20earning%20families
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 https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00543/full
 Etc.
Thank you