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- Sociology
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Education Standards
Role Strain and Role Conflict: Individuals and Society (Video)
Social Interaction in Everyday Life
Social Interaction & Performance: Crash Course Sociology (Video)
Social Structure: The Building Blocks of Social Life
Differentiate statuses and roles
Overview
OER Text Material
Social Structure: The Building Blocks of Social Life
Social Interaction in Everyday Life
Sociology: Understanding and Changing the Social World, 5.1.1, 5.3.2. These sections define status roles and provide examples of ascribed status, achieved status, master status, role conflict and role strain.
Supplementary Material (Videos and Reading)
Social Interaction & Performance: Crash Course Sociology (Video)
This provides a good discussion of how our interactions are structured through our definition and understanding of our statuses and roles. Video Summary: “How do sociologists study and understand social interaction? Today we’ll explain the language sociologists use to discuss how we interact with the social world. What are statuses and roles? How are they different? How do you acquire them? We’ll talk about why these things matter by exploring the socially constructed nature of reality.”
Role Strain and Role Conflict: Individuals and Society (Video)
This short video from Khan Academy explains and provides examples to help distinguish role strain and role conflict.
“Master Status” by Janis Prince Inniss
Everyday Sociology Blog, October 10, 2011. This short blog entry discusses the difference and relationship between status (ascribed and achieved), roles and master status while also addressing role conflict.