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Recent Developments in Role Theory

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Ann. Rev. Social. 1986. 12:67-92 Copyright 1986 by Annual Reviews Inc. All rights reserved Recent Developments IN ROLE Theory B. J. Biddle center for Research in Social Behavior, University of Missouri-Columbia, Columbia, Missouri 65211 Abstract Role Theory Concerns One of the most important features of social life, characteristic behavior patterns or roles . It explains roles by presuming that persons are members of social positions and hold expectations for their own behaviors and those of other persons. Its vocabulary and concerns are popular among social scientists and practitioners, and role concepts have generated a lot of research.

introductory texts as well as some sociologists interested in applying role concepts (e.g. Nye 1976) still embrace a functionalist stance. The assumptions of functionalism have been criticized, however, and this perspective has lost its former, dominant position in American sociology. Among other things, it has

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