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The 19 pages that link to Social role, each with the reason it gives.

• Social normRelated: Roles organize norms around positions such as parent, teacher, or official.

• SocializationRelated: Learning roles teaches people how to act in positions such as parent, student, or worker.

• Social structureRelated: Roles turn structural positions into patterned expectations for conduct.

• Social statusRelated: Status concerns position; roles describe the conduct associated with positions.

• Social interactionRelated: Roles guide how people act toward one another in recurring situations.

• LatencyRelated: Learning roles is one way members acquire the patterns latency renews.

• Talcott ParsonsRelated: Roles connect individual action to the patterned expectations that organize Parsons’s systems.

• Social institutionRelated: Roles assign patterned duties and expectations within an institution.

• Erving GoffmanRelated: His performances depend on roles that organize what conduct an audience expects.

• Social hierarchyRelated: Roles specify the conduct expected from people occupying different ranks.

• Cultural determinismRelated: The view explains roles through culturally learned expectations.

• Social orderRelated: Roles translate positions into patterned interactions.

• Interpersonal relationshipCompared with: Roles shape behavior but do not by themselves constitute a relationship.

• SituationismRelated: Roles can structure conduct independently of a person’s enduring traits.

• Psychosocial developmentRelated: Roles connect social structures to the identities and responsibilities people develop.

• SocietyBroader topic: Roles connect individual conduct to society's shared expectations.

• Social relationRelated: Roles structure what people expect from one another in a relation.

• Florian ZnanieckiRelated: Znaniecki’s account of social organization examines how roles shape group life.

• Ralph LintonBroader topic: Linton’s status-role distinction helped make social expectations a subject of analysis.