Title: Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society? - Exploring your mind
Headings: Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society?
Role Theory: What's Our Role in Society?
Stress factors associated with roles
Problems that stem from our roles can come from different sources:
Building a role
The Role of Grandparents in the Family

Content: director, secretary, colleague, or assistant. One person, depending on the context, can play several roles. They can be a work colleague, a son in a family, or the joker within a group of friends. We can build our own roles or we can adapt to preexisting ones. Other group members may initially define the type of behavior they expect from you. These expectations are generalized and each person will have to eventually accept your personal characteristics. Stress factors associated with roles
Problems that stem from our roles can come from different sources: Ambiguity. In this case, someone is expecting us to adapt to a role we don’t really understand. It isn’t clear and we don’t know what others want from us or how they want us to contribute to the group.