An Anthropological Understanding of Ethnicity and Race Requires Exploring How

An anthropological understanding of ethnicity and race requires exploring how people and institutions define, negotiate, and even challenge their identities in society. One way anthropologists-and social scientists in general-do this is by studying status, which refers to

A) a mutually exclusive social identity that is set by others and has little to do with an individual's actions.
B) a biologically determined identity within a hierarchical society.
C) an identity determined by the state through census practices.
D) a socially negotiated identity that always changes throughout a person's lifetime.
E) any position, no matter what its prestige, that someone occupies in society.