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Ascription
In general usage, to ascribe is to give, impute or attribute certain features to some object, person, event or act without justification. In the absence of good evidence, to assert "all politicians are corrupt" is to ascribe a characteristic to a class of people. This sense of something given or undeserved is carried over into the modern social science pairing of ascription and achievement.
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