#role theory

[becauseallhellseeisme]

I've been googling facts about role theory the last couple of days and I think it plays an important role in understanding neurotypical behaviour.

I often felt rejected and I guess most of that was due to contextual problems, not my flawed personality.

You know the feeling you get when you said something weird or wrong and the whole room is staring at you? I think a lot of that is due to context and saying things that are not appropriate or relevant to most people in a certain context.

It also explains group behaviour in general. Each group has contextual rules.

[sweatyalpacaenemy]

(via Use of Role & Script Theory in Service Contexts)

[playitthroughdramatherapy]

Using improvisation and role within dramatherapy to allow a group of homeless people to remember who they are beyond the homeless label, and imagine who they could be.

[sexandsociallife]

In this clip from Leave it to Beaver, Ward tells his son Walley about a woman's place in society. 

What Ward is saying follows the sociological perspective of role theory; he is saying that both women and men have roles in society that allow society to function. He also believes that men and women have been performing these roles since the beginning of time and so these roles are natural in a way.

Those who follow the feminist perspective would criticize Ward's words because he has a patriarchal outlook on society. He believes that women cannot do all of the things that men can and that men are more rugged than women. Feminists would also criticize Ward because his words illustrate that he believes men are more powerful than women and that men and women are not equal. 

[mentalhealth-nursing]

Imagine John Hollings. His self image includes ideas that he is clever, articulate and reasonably attractive. He fills the roles of husband, father, college lecturer, risque friend and church official. He is admitted to hospital, barely conscious with a subarachnoid haemorrhage. He cannot speak or focus properly. Friends may come to visit John, bon viveur, caustic and witty, only to find a middle-aged man in Paisley pyjamas meekly eating processed cheese. No one reinforces his self image, nurses talk to him as if he were a child, and as his condition improves, his temper worsens. A nurse might describe him as 'difficult and demanding,' when neither adjective describes the real person.

Ann Faulkner  

[nerd-lord-quill]

very pleased with the fact that my sociology book is using Shakespeare as an example

[vidadqgn-blog]

Paths to Marriage (Family Studies Text series)

How do people come to make what is probably one of the most important decisions of their lives -- whom to marry? In this concise summary of previous research, Murstein traces the history of marriage, looking back to the age when it was set by contract between families. Paths to Marriage (Family Studies Text series) He then examines the socio-cultural determinants and demographics of contemporary marital choice, courtship, engagement and cohabitation.Murstein goes on to describe and compare the major theories of marital choice, clearly stating the strengths and weaknesses of Freud's psychoanalytic theory, Winch's complementary needs theory, Center's instrumental theory, Kerckhoff and Davis' filter theory and his own stimulus-value role theory.Although it presents the results of current sociological and psychological research on this topic, Paths to Marriage does not require a knowledge of statistics. As such it is an ideal undergraduate text.