Swk 225 chpt.4

Role Discrepancy

describes the difference btwn perfect role performance & the actual role performance of a position occupant.

Status

power withing social system. High status : judges,presidents ... Low status: poor, criminals ...

Systematic Eclecticism

When you choose the BEST elements from a variety of sources to inform our practice. Applying the best & most tested theoretical constructs to the understanding of our system.

Role Clarification

developing role expectations that are clear and conflict-free for a role occupant intervention of choice for role ambuigity.

Role Negotiation

process of clarifying roles or addressing conflicts by seeing the position occupant and the role senders jointly,and mutually agreeing on expectations

Role Reversal

process of one person assuming the position of an other with whom there is interaction.

Negative Sanctions

punishments/penalties against a person due to failure to meet role expectations.

Reference Group

refer to the group for feedback on our role performance,and thus our self-assessment. We need to belong in reference group in order to value feedback.

Conformity

refers to the condition of a position occupant who experiances subjective discomfort or unhappiness as a result of meeting role expectations. It is an internal matter

Definition of the situation

refers to the importance of the meanings that a person assigns to a social situation.

Positive Sanctions

rewards of benefits that a person gains for meeting the role expectations

Role Strain

role requires skills or qualities that are not in the repertoire of the position occupant

Latent Roles

roles we occupy but are not active at a particular moment.

Situated self

self as it interacts in the immediate social situation. Highly reactive to the immediate situtaion and the social feedback received.

Thematic Self

sense of identity a person develops over time and across a range of social situation.

Norm of Reciprocity

social expectation that the way you act with someone they will act back. " be good to be people and they will be good to you ".

Activation Syndrome

state of arousal that we generally call stress

Normal

steady state in society. What society defines normal or expects

Serial Compromise

strategy i nwhich one alternates in fully meeting the expectation of two or more conflicted positions meeting first one role expectation then switching to meet another

Role Senders

the other and generalized other. They communicate expectations in order to influence the performance of the position occupant.

Other

the person you interact with. Could be imaginary

Achieved

A Person can achieve this position. More mobility. Doctor,divorced,parent,felon...

Merton

Anomic results from a conflict in social expectations rather than the lack of norms.If the reference groups are in conflict individual experiences anomie.

Reality Testing

Asses the objective situation

Norms

Constitute an effort to control the behavior of people in a system by defining socially what is "good" & "bad"

Impression Management

Controlling what is revealed in order to create the desired effect

Generalized Other

Group of people who may be real or imagined.Have consistent expectation of the behavior on others.

Positions

Role theory starts with positions,. Gives structure to the interactions btwn people in a system.

Interpositional role conflict

a person occupies two or more positions concurrently with inocmpatible expectations Ex: mother,student,worker cant meet all expectations

Role Making

ability of a person to modify or create roles in response to changes in a social situation

Role Taking

ability to understand one's position expectations from the standpoint of significant others. EMPATHY

Anomie

absence of social norms in a system. Its disruptive to social and psychological functioning when one does not know how they should behave

Role Performance

actual behavior displayed by the person in a position. Ex: getting job,abusing child,using drugs

Role Accession

addition of new roles that produce conflict or strain in the performance of the existing role repertoire.New role that is unfamiliar

Normal Behavior

behavior that conforms to the social expectations for occupants of a particular position. People conform to the expectations of a position to maintain order.

Role conceptions

behavior that is deemed appropriate by position occupants for their own behavior in a particular situation

Role Distance

behavior that is intended to signal that an occupant is not completely defined by the current position. Our desire to escape the immediate situation and be perceived as a person of depth

Role Expectations

behaviors considered appropriate for a person in certain position

Obliteration by incorporation

by Robert Merton. ideas that have become so useful and familiar that they seem they always been there.

Developmental theme

connections btwn our senses of self from childhood to old age can be understood this way.

Role Sanctions

consequences administrated by others in a social system for the performance of a social role. Rewards & Punishments dealt out by society in response to performances

Role Underperformance

consisten failure to meet the expectations or conceptions for a position in a social system.

Role Refusal

decision by a position occupant to withdraw from a proposed role, and to deny the legitimacy of the role senders to require role performance

Peripheral Roles

do not define the self-concept of the role occupant. May be new or situtionally defined roles that provide a limited impact on the enduring self-concept of a person. EX: college student working part time at McD little investment i nthe role of taking food orders

Role Suspension

form of role refusal in which the refusal is temporary .

Role Set

interacting network of roles that define the expected behavior of a position occupant. Ex: child role needs interaction w/parents need set of roles.

self-talk

internal dialogue between I and Me

Role Loss

involuntary loss of a core role that is a significant part of a person's slef-concept. Core role terminated Death of loved one. Grieving is coping method

Preferential selection

involves choosing one of a ser of conflicted roles for performance by ignoring the demands of other roles

Role Playing/ Role Rehearsal

involves the use of the empty role performance

Role overload

is the proliferation of roles in the repertoire to the point that the position occupant cannot meet all expectations. Constantly adding roles and expectations to our repertoire.

Role Theory

its a middle range theory. Can apply the central role concepts to every system discussed in social work practice.

Conceptions

norms for a role that are internalized by the person who occupy the position.What we think we should do

Expectations

norms shared by others in a society. What others think we should do.

Role Conflict

occurs when a position occupant is exposed to contradictory and incompatible role expectations or conceptions that cannot be per formed at at the same time

Intrapositional role conflict

occurs when the occupant of a single position is exposed to two or more role senders who have different and incompatible expectation.Produce tension Ex. oldest son and both parents ask u to do something different

Role Occupant/ Role Incumbent/ Self/Actor

person in a particular position in a specific situation .Interacts with every other role.

Significant Other

person whose expectations are influential to a person who is evaluating his/her own role performance .Doesn't have to be intimate association. Ex: music teacher giving good feedback

Durkheim (Le Suicide)

personal act of suicide could be traced to the failure of social regulation. Anomic suicide occurs in time of social change/disruption

Role Model

position occupant (other) whose performance is used by another as a standard for successful role performance.refers to using someone as a goal to which one aspires. Don't have to be actual people they can be mythical

Ascribed

positions people are ascribed to like gender,race,age. The are fixed. They bring stability within our social system.

Role Rehearsal

to practicing and developing the skills required in performing a role in a controlled setting, in the absence of actual role senders.

Concept of Self

understood as Reflexive, in which the person in a situation is both the evaluater and the thing being evaluated of social evaluation. Ex: I am ashamed of myself;i was such a fool !

Concurrent Compromise

utilizes partial fulfillment of conflictinf role expectations for teo or more pisitions at a given time.

Role Overperformance

when a role occupant exceeds the usual expectations or conceptions associated with a position.Doing too much

Role Ambiguity

when either the expectations or the conceptions attached to a social position are not clear to the role occupant or to members of the role set.Common when a person is new or in roles that are going through rapid change