What Is a Position in a Social Hierarchy Called That

question 97

Multiple Choice

What is a position in a social hierarchy called that comes with a set of expectations?

• A) a role
• B) a backstage
• C) a stereotype
• D) an agent of socialization
• E) a status

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Definitions:

Necessary Truths

Propositions that are true under all possible circumstances; their negation results in a contradiction.

A Priori Truths

A Priori Truths are knowledge or propositions that are known independently of experience, based on reason alone.

Empirical Statements

Assertions about the world that are verifiable through observation or experience rather than theory or pure logic.

Contingent

Not necessary; could have been otherwise. What we believe (or a state of affairs) is contingent if we can imagine its being other than it is.