workshop: challenging media stereotypes - excercise 1
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Social status can be understood as the degree of honor or prestige attached to one's position in society. Social systems are built with certain through various forms of structural components and institutions.
One’s opinions, ways of thinking, values, needs, and feelings are often based on the way media and society portrays different levels of status. Often based on a particular skin color, being of a particular gender, being dressed in a particular way, or having a particular profession or degree.
Individuals tend to evaluate others according to a particular set of values, and to rank people in terms of these evaluations. The purpose of this exercise was to engage the participants in a discussion on how they view status. They were asked to choose a number from 1-10. The highest number was given title of a high position in society and the lowest the bottom of the social class.
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