Biddle Role Theory

Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4832-8813-0
Verlag: Elsevier Science & Techn.
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 416 Seiten, Web PDF

Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors presents the applications of role concepts for education, social work, and clinical practice. This book examines the advantages as well as the shortcomings of the role stance. Organized into nine chapters, this book begins with an overview of behaviors that are characteristics of persons within contexts and the various processes that are employed to explain and predict those behaviors. This text then examines the concepts of the role field and discovers their applications to social problems of pressing concern. Other chapters consider the empirical evidence that has been developed within the role orientation concerning social problems. This book discusses as well the behavioral comparability, behavior linkage, behavioral effects, and complex linking concepts for behaviors. The final chapter discusses how contexts may affect the behaviors of persons and how those behaviors may have subsequent functions. This book is a valuable resource for anthropologists, sociologists, and social psychologists.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Biddle, Bruce J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1;Front Cover;1
2;Role Theory: Expectations, Identities, and Behaviors;4
3;Copyright Page;5
4;Table of Contents;6
5;Preface;10
6;Chapter One. Relevance, Role Theory, and Ratiocination;14
7;Chapter Two. The Study of Social Behaviors;33
7.1;Behavior and Related Concepts;35
7.2;The Comparing and Linking of Behaviors;45
7.3;Envoi;66
8;Chapter Three. Roles;68
8.1;The Concept of Role;71
8.2;Concepts and Variables for Roles;85
8.3;On The Empirical Study of Roles;92
8.4;Envoi;97
9;Chapter Four. Identities and Social Positions;100
9.1;Concepts of Identity and Position;102
9.2;Varieties of Positions;112
9.3;The Study of Positions;123
9.4;Envoi;125
10;Chapter Five. Expectations;128
10.1;Simple Expectations;132
10.2;Complex Expectations and Presumptions of Sentience;157
10.3;Variables of Expectations;165
10.4;Envoi;171
11;Chapter Six. Comparison Concepts and Expected Roles;173
11.1;Comparison Concepts;175
11.2;Expected Roles;222
11.3;Envoi;230
12;Chapter Seven. The Analysis of Social Systems;235
12.1;Overt Structure;240
12.2;Positional Structure;258
12.3;Conceptual Structure;268
12.4;Envoi;289
13;Chapter Eight. The Person in a Social Context;294
13.1;Socialization and Other Explanations;295
13.2;Individuality;302
13.3;Occupations and Role Changing;325
13.4;Adjustment and Therapy;334
13.5;Envoi;344
14;Chapter Nine. Ultima Rolle;346
14.1;Where Are We Now;347
14.2;What We Might Do About It;350
14.3;The Social Use of Role Theory;360
15;References;362
16;Glossary;394
17;Author Index;412
18;Subject Index;424