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Talk about role theory and how did the theory of "role theory" begin?
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- all roles exist in relation to other roles in a situation. dependent on other roles and on other situations. Ex. cant be a mother unelss you have children.
-Began as a study of the negative. ex. Lack of role functioning - role conflict, role strain |
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Role making
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-process of attempting to define & modify roles.
- we act as if there are distinct roles that are clear & consistent |
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Roles have varying degrees of..?
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Roles have varying degrees of concreteness and consistency.
-we act as if they are clear & consistent -we attempt to define roles & modify them --> process is called role making |
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Whats the opposition of role making
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Role taking
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Role making
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- changes in roles
- principle of role reciprocity - explains changes in behvaiour - change in our role reflects a changed perception of the role of the other - through interaction, we test our assumptions of our and other's roles |
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Role taking and its problem
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-act of taking the perspective of generalized other & folling a role (behaving) as we believe it to be defined.
-imagine how another person with another role would define the situation and act according to their perspective -its impossible to PERFECTLY grasp the other's POV -always colored by our own perspective -we perform the role based on how we perceive the role of the other. Problem - roels are not always clearly defined. |
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Roles as groups of behvaiour
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-role taking/making involves grouping units of behaviour
-role refers to a pattern of behaviour which is consistent for a given type of actor |
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What are role sets?
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A cluster of roles
ex. husband, father son, grandson = a set of family roles -each of us has a set of roles we perform |
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Roles in Organizations & Culture
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- more complex
- roles - negotiated and revised to provide a stable framework for interaction - compromise b/w role taking & accordance to organizational rules - coordinate our actions with others = efficiency |
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Role differentiation (internal validation of roles/external validation of roles)
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- the same behaviour can be a display of different roles under different circumstances
- internal validation of roles: successful anticipation of behaviours of others in order to play out one's own role -external validation of roles: based on determining if one's behaviour is judged to be appropriate for the role played |
