Statuses are distinguished by the manner in which we acquire them. A(n) status is a social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life, based on attributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as race/ethnicity, age, and gender.

ascribed status

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Statuses are distinguished by the manner in which we acquire them. A(n) ascribed status is a social position conferred at birth or received involuntarily later in life, based on attributes over which the individual has little or no control, such as race/ethnicity, age, and gender.  

This is the status assigned to an individual at birth based on their sex, kinship or race, it is the status people are born into and example is eye color. An individual is born either as a male or female, black or Caucasian, they do not chose it, it is ascribed to them at birth.

all people shall have equal rights upon birth and ever after. (when referring to the rights of man the declaration of the rights of man only applied to landowning men who were 25 years or older and paid taxes equal to 3 days worth of work and were not servants.

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answer; the civil right act of 1964;