Identification of different roles and status played by different people. I am a government officer. I am having a reasonable time. My social status. I play the role of head in my office. I control different government lower officials and employees. I take interest in my work. I behave with my colleagues. Nicely and I seek their cooperation.
I play the role of father in my family. I earn for myself and for all members of my family. I am a citizen of India. I performed my several duties as a citizen of my country. I obey law and order. I pay all taxes honestly. I respect my national flag and symbol. In society different people play different roles in different capacities and they hold different status.
A status is simply position in society or in a group. Every society and every group has many different positions for different individuals of society or groups. For example in a family there is father, there is mother, there are domestic helps and servants. It must be kept in mind that each individual in a modern complex society such as ours occupies.
Many different types of status during the course of his/her life. For example you as a school student may be a student to your teacher, a customer to your grocer, passenger to the bus driver, a brother or sister to your sibling, a patient to the doctor. Needless to say we could keep adding to the list.
To a smaller and simpler society, the fever is the kind of status that an individual can have.
In a modern and individual occupies multiple status, Sociologists term this multiple status as status set.
Individuals acquire different status at different stages of life. For example, with the passage of time, a young son becomes a father, a father becomes a grandfather and then a great grandfather. This is called status sequence for it refers to the status, which is attained in succession or sequence at the various stages of life.
