Title: Achieved status - Wikipedia
Headings: Achieved status
Achieved status
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Compared to ascribed status
Social mobility
Cultural capital
Education
Employment
Income
Stratification systems around the world
Cultural differences around the world
Medieval Europe
Feudalism in Latin America
Caste system
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Content: For example, Americans are less likely than people in other industrialized nations to object to current income variances. According to Rodney Stark, in 1992, only 27% of Americans strongly agreed that income disparities in their country were too large. In contrast, more than half of Russians, Italians, and Bulgarians agreed with that statement. Stratification systems around the world
In all societies, a person's social status is the result of both ascribed and achieved characteristics. Societies differ markedly on several dimensions in that process: the attributes that are used to assign status, the relative importance of ascribed or achieved attributes, the overall potential for social mobility, the rates of mobility that actually occur, and the barriers to particular subgroups enjoying upward mobility. Cultural differences around the world
Medieval Europe
One's status in medieval Europe was primarily based on ascription. People born into the noble class were likely to keep a high position and people born of peasants were likely to stay in a low position. This political system is known as feudalism and does not allow for much social mobility . Feudalism in Latin America
Bolivia used to have newspaper advertisements that claimed to have land, animals and peasants for sale.