Goffman - Symbolic Interactionist
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Humans are actors each playing many role; in a series of performances

controlled and managed in conformity with the definition of the situation.  Part of this definition involves the allocation and the acceptance of roles; people are simply the roles they play in different situations and so it is meaningless to talk about the enduring qualities of people.

Social roles - the plots or positions that we occupy in society (Judy Gahagan).  Most social roles are interdependent - constitute role sets(e.g. teacher-pupil / parent-daughter).  Role behaviour usually corresponds to role expectations (norms) which makes the expectation of other people's behaviour more predictable.

Role conflict : not knowing what is expected of me ; role partners having different expectations / occupying more than one role simultaneously

Other Notes in this Category

1. Attitudes
2. Attitudes and Behaviour
3. Attribution
4. Conformity
5. Crowds and Territoriality
6. Goffman - Symbolic Interactionist
7. Impression Formation
8. Inference Model
9. Intuition model
10. Is there a conformity personality?
11. Obedience
12. Persuasion
13. Prejudice
14. Self Concept
15. Self-attribution processes
16. Social Influence
17. Stereotypes and Stereotyping
18. The Primacy-Recency effect
19. Zimbardo

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