Ascription, in sociology, is a way to acquire status, along with achievement or chance.
["The Sociology of Gender: Theoretical Perspectives and Feminist Frameworks" in Lindsey, L. ''Gender Roles: a Sociological Perspective'', Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2005]
In philosophy, it is related to
belief ascription.
It is also a concept in linguistics, refer to
Predicate (grammar)
The term predicate is used in one of two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence except the subject, and the other views it as just the main content verb or associated ...
.
See also
*
Ascriptive inequality
References
External links
Sociological terminology
{{sociology-stub