• It comes to us largely through our own efforts.
• For example, student, professor, president, pianist …
• The ascribed status often influences on achieved status. (e.g. Women face difficulty to get a certain job.)
• When a person has to do with somebody, mostly, she does so as a person of a certain status with a person of another status.
• For example, a daughter with father, a friend with a friend, an employee and an employer