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  2. Role - Wikipedia

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    Role development can be influenced by a number of additional factors, including social, genetic predisposition, cultural or situational. Societal influence: The structure of society often forms individuals into certain roles based on the social situations they choose to experience.

  3. Role theory - Wikipedia

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    For the socialized mind, 60 percent of people are in this mindset well into their adult years. Role theory is following perceived roles and standards that people in society normalize. People are confined to roles that have been placed around them due to the socialized mind. The internalization of the value of others in society leads to role ...

  4. Society - Wikipedia

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    In functionalist thought, individuals form the structure of society by occupying social roles. [10] According to symbolic interactionism, individuals use symbols to navigate and communicate roles. [67] Erving Goffman used the metaphor of a theater to develop the dramaturgical lens, which argues that roles provide scripts that govern social ...

  5. Structural functionalism - Wikipedia

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    Although any individual, theoretically, can fulfill any role, the individual is expected to conform to the norms governing the nature of the role they fulfill. [17] Furthermore, one person can and does fulfill many different roles at the same time. In one sense, an individual can be seen to be a "composition" [15] of the roles he inhabits ...

  6. Social structure - Wikipedia

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    Social structures can be influenced by individuals, but individuals are often influenced by agents of socialization (e.g., the workplace, family, religion, and school). The way these agents of socialization influence individualism varies on each separate member of society; however, each agent is critical in the development of self-identity. [15]

  7. Portal:Society - Wikipedia

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    A society (/ s ə ˈ s aɪ ə t i /) is a group of individuals involved in persistent social interaction or a large social group sharing the same spatial or social territory, typically subject to the same political authority and dominant cultural expectations.

  8. Types of social groups - Wikipedia

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    Crew or Band: Small group of skilled people with common interest; a rowing crew; a music band; construction crew; subunit of a tribe as band society. Peer group: A group with members of approximately the same age, social status, and interests. Generally, people are relatively equal in terms of power when they interact with peers.

  9. Social position - Wikipedia

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    A social class (or, simply, class), as in class society, is a set of subjectively defined concepts in the social sciences and political theory centered on models of social stratification in which people are grouped into a set of hierarchical social categories, [5] the most common being the upper, middle, and lower classes.