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Also known as social role, human role

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:

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Has part
obligation
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topic's main category
Category:Role status
described by source
Armenian Soviet Encyclopedia
partially coincident with
social position
different from
occupation
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