Role status

social role encompassing a range of behaviors and attitudes that are generally considered acceptable, appropriate, or desirable for people based on their actual or perceived sex or sexuality

A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may have a given individual social status or social position. It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society. Social role theory posits the following about social behavior:

person who models a social role for other people, intentionally or unintentionally

privilege for female Roman Catholic royalty to wear white clothes instead of black while meeting the pope

female participants in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics

pseudo-racial classification used by the apartheid regime of South Africa to grant almost all of the rights and privileges of whites to those who would otherwise have been treated as non-whites

term used in the British education system

a woman who is accorded the status of a man without disrupting the patriarchal status quo

Concept in sociology

anxiety among males who feel they do not meet cultural standards of masculinity

paradigm of family centered on a breadwinner

inventory test used to research gender roles