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Assignment:

1. Make a three column table like the attached example. In one column, list all your current social positions or social statuses in order of their importance to you, starting with the most important, then moving down to the least important. In a second column, next to the first, note whether each status is primarily ascribed, primarily achieved, or both. Then, in a third column, list the role-sets related to each status.

2. Now discuss "Who Am I?" based on the mapping you just did. Discuss why you rank-ordered the statuses in importance as you did and why you seem to identify with them. Do you have a master status? Which one?

3. Now discuss the presence of conflicts you experience between the statuses (i.e. role conflict) and between a status and its role reciprocals within the role set (i.e. role strain). How do you usually handle and relieve such strain?

4. Finally, comment on the influence of social control. For example, how much do you feel controlled by the expectations of your statuses? Do you feel you can reject some of them if they are too controlling? How much of a voice do you have in determining who you are? Does this vary by the age, sex, etc. of the person involved? Finally, are you pretty much the sum of your statuses, or are you more than these?