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Ascribed Characteristics

  • are characteristics that you have little control of 

  • these characteristics are placed at birth or assigned by others

  •  Examples include:

  1. sex

  2. skin color

  3. eye shape

  4. place of birth

  5. sexuality

  6. gender identity

  7. parentage

  8. and social status of parents

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Social inequality can be classified into: 

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