Soc 100 - Roles

Question 1

Role

Answer 1

The socially-defined character that you perform in everyday situations.

Question 2

Role Taking

Answer 2

The act of adopting a specific role – of being ‘a good friend’ – in specific situation

Question 3

Role Making

Answer 3

Our ability to interpet a role in a way that changes or adapts what’s expected.

Question 4

Social Script

Answer 4

The set of rules and expectations that specify how people in two different roles should interact.These scripts are acquired as grow up: we know instinctively what’s expected of us.

Question 5

Dramaturgical Method

Answer 5

Dramaturgical MethodInterpret social interactions as though people are acting out specific roles

Question 6

Staging and Impression Management

Answer 6

StagingLocations & costumes socially defined.Prepare ‘back stage’ to act ‘front stage�Impression ManagementHow we try to affect others’ views of us by acting in certain ways..

Question 7

Identity

Answer 7

Our overall picture of the way all our roles fit together.

Question 8

Role Set

Answer 8

The collection of roles that any individual plays: we all juggle a number of roles in our daily live, and try to build something coherent out of them.

Question 9

Role Strain and Role Conflict

Answer 9

Role StrainDifficulties in fulfilling the demands of a single, intense role, e.g. feeling you’re a bad parent.Role ConflictJuggling the contradictory demands of multiple roles, e.g. combining job with parenthood�

Question 10

Master Status

Answer 10

Master StatusSingle most important role to identity; given priority over rest.

Question 11

Compartmental-isation

Answer 11

Keeping different roles separate, to minimise conflicts (e.g. don’t think of work at home)

Question 12

Role Distance

Answer 12

To show disdain for the role you have to play (e.g. ignoring parents when with friends)

Question 13

Role Exit

Answer 13

Often-painful process when we’re obliged to give up a role.

Question 14

How does Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) describes the way we derive our self-esteem from others?

Answer 14

You gain your picture of who you are from the way others treat you and respond to you. If they treat you badly, you have no reason to believe you deserve anything other than being treated badly; if you are told you’ll succeed, it’s more likely that you will.

Question 15

Looking Glass Self

Answer 15

C.H. Cooley’s term to describe the way we view selves as others see us.Your self-worth and aspirations come from how others treat you.

Question 16

How does society organize roles?

Answer 16

Societies place roles in a hierarchy of statuses: some are considered more prestigious or worthy of respect than others.

Question 17

Status

Answer 17

The rank or prestige of your role relative to others in society.

Question 18

Ascribed vs Achieved Status

Answer 18

Ascribed StatusYou’re put into a certain status group because of things you can’t change.Achieved StatusYour own efforts or behaviour place you in this status (e.g. job).