Identify the different roles and status that you play and are located in. Do you think roles and status change ? Discuss when and how they change.

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 duty 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 role in different capacity and they hold different status.

A status is simply position in society or in group. Every society and every group has many different position for different individual of society or groups. For example in a family there is father, there is mother, there are domestic helps and servants. It must be keep in mind that each individual in a modern complex society such as our 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 smaller and simpler the society, the fever the kinds of status that an individual can have.

In a modern society and individual occupies multiple status, Sociologist term this multiple status as status set.

Individual acquire different status at different stages of life. For example with the passage of time, a young son becomes later on father, father becomes a grand father and then great grand father. This is called status sequence for it refers to the status, which is attained in succession or sequence at the various stages of life.