What Is a Master Status

What is a master status?

A) A social position attained by a person largely through his or her own efforts.
B) A term used by sociologists to refer to any of the full range of socially defined positions within a large group or society.
C) A series of social relationships linking a person directly to others and therefore indirectly to still more people.
D) A status that dominates others and thereby determines a person's general position within society.