PSYC 215 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Stanford Prison Experiment, Social Constructionism, Prison Officer

• School: McGill University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 215
• Professor: Adam Etinson

Document Summary

Role: a set of behaviors expected of someone in a particular position in a social system. Occupational roles (a police officer who is expected to act in certain ways) Family roles (parents and children, siblings; each person has expectations of how to act depending on position in the family) Roles in typical interactions (short term, situational roles; eg. customer -salesperson interaction, boss-employee interaction, doctor-patient interaction) Gender roles (prominent in the past yet still evident in the present) Role conflict: when the expectations of two roles one has require incompatible behaviors. Conflict between parenting role and workplace role (when you must give a presentation in a meeting but the child is sick and you must take care of him/her) Role distance: experiencing and communicating (expressing) that one"s role is not a reflection of one"s true self. Role identification: experiencing a role as a reflection of one"s true self.