Editing Ascribed characteristics (section)

=== Gender ===
Frank van Tubergen studied the how ascribed characteristics and achieved characteristics affect their [[social capital]] in the article "Personal networks in Saudi Arabia: The role of ascribed and achieved characteristics".<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=van Tubergen|first1=Frank|last2=Al-Modaf|first2=Obaid Ali|last3=Almosaed|first3=Nora F.|last4=Al-Ghamdi|first4=Mohammed Ben Said|title=Personal networks in Saudi Arabia: The role of ascribed and achieved characteristics|journal=Social Networks|volume=45|pages=45–54|doi=10.1016/j.socnet.2015.10.007|year=2016|hdl=1874/341809 }}</ref> The article highlighted that women have less social capital than men in [[Saudi Arabia]] citing specifically that it was "due to fewer non-family connections". There are many arguments that stem from disagreements over the definition of what is a fact when it comes to gender, showing the fluidity of ascribed characteristics. For example, people who find [[homosexuality]] morally objectionable may attempt to justify this by insisting that homosexuals make a conscious decision about the nature of the sexual desire they experience; however, it would difficult to condemn homosexuality if homosexuality was predetermined, either genetically or from early childhood.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Rahman|first1=Q|last2=Wilson|first2=G.D|year=2003|title=Sexual orientation and the 2nd to 4th finger length ratio: evidence for organising effects of sex hormones or developmental instability?|journal=International Society of Psychoneuroendocrinology|volume=28|issue=3|pages=288–303|doi=10.1016/S0306-4530(02)00022-7|pmid=12573297|s2cid=21071741}}</ref> (''See [[Sexual orientation]].'') Both groups do, however, use the term all the same, simply ''ascribing'' different definitions to those individuals.