ISBN: | 978-5-5138-0449-9 |
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ascribed status is the social status a person is assigned at birth or assumed involuntarily later in life. It is a position that is neither earned nor chosen but assigned. These rigid social designators remain fixed throughout an individual`s life and are inseparable from the positive or negative stereotypes that are linked with one`s ascribed statuses.