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Download Solution PDFWhich of the following concept implies that each social status involves not a single associated role but an array of roles?
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Download Solution PDFRole set implies that each social status involves not a single associated role but an array of roles.
Important Points
- Role theory proponent R.K. Merton differs with Linton's definition of status and role, according to which status is a place in a social structure with certain rights and obligations and role is behavior that is focused on others' patterned expectations.
- According to Merton, each social status has a variety of roles—or a "role set"—instead of just one connected role.
- The fundamental cornerstones of any social structure or social system are the ideas of status and role.
- Parsons claims that the status roles that make up society are its subunits.
- To describe the number of responsibilities associated with a single status, Robert K. Merton coined the phrase "role set." A role set is a circumstance in which a single status has multiple roles associated with it.
Therefore role set implies that each social status involves not a single associated role but an array of roles.
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