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.

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Explanation:

When a person is born into this world there are social aspects that the person inherits from their parents. The person inherits the social status from their parents. Social status is one's position in society.

Another aspect of status is achieved status. Here, the status is not inherited but achieved by the person through their merits and ability.

One has not control over their ascribed status, but have control over their achieved status.

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d. because dr. laguardia selected a widely used measure, his study generalizes to has strong external validity. external validity has limited external validity. other applications of this measure.

the widely used measure that he applied to his experiment was the benton facial recognition test. it employed on to football players and as result, only players who suffered brain concussions did not pas this test. and although it has an external validity, it is limited because it isn't general to apply to other population.

they all focused on themes about the inevitability of death.