Role theory is a concept in sociology and in social psychology that considers most of everyday activity to be the acting-out of socially defined categories...

both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society. Social role theory posits the following about social behavior: The division of labour in...

Role-taking theory (or social perspective taking) is the social-psychological concept that one of the most important factors in facilitating social cognition...

Role congruity theory proposes that a group will be positively evaluated when its characteristics are recognized as aligning with that group's typical...

theta roles include Fillmore (1968) (Fillmore called theta roles "cases") and Gruber (1965). Theta roles are prominent in government and binding theory and...

labeling theory, role engulfment refers to how a person's identity becomes based on a role the person assumes, superseding other roles. A negative role such...

predisposition. As an aspect of role theory, gender role theory "treats these differing distributions of women and men into roles as the primary origin of sex-differentiated...

based on a person's sex that occurs in a place of employment. Social role theory may explain one reason for why occupational sexism exists. Historically...

the mechanism through which roles are assigned or denied, either to oneself or others. The theory describes malleable roles and storylines that determine...

Retrieved 6 June 2016. Mackey, B. A. (1977). Application of role conflict theory to the role expectations held for the dean of students by various reference...

Role-playing game theory is the study of role-playing games (RPGs) as a social or artistic phenomenon, also known as ludology. RPG theories seek to understand...

differential association theory is essentially sociological.[citation needed] Sarbin argues that peer educators will adapt to the role expectations of a tutor...

theory was to systemically examine contextual variability in development processes. As the theory evolved, it placed increasing emphasis on the role of...

known to degrade physical appearance. Social role theory (or the social structural model) is a rival theory by Alice Eagly and Wendy Wood. According to...

in sociological systems theory. Parsons is one of the founding fathers of medical sociology, and applied social role theory to interactional relations...

temperament back to the ancient Greeks, Keirsey developed a modern temperament theory in his books Please Understand Me (1978), Portraits of Temperament (1988)...

theory on role congruity, the belief that prejudice arises when one social groups' stereotype mismatches their valued success in other social roles,...

circumstances. Social role theory can dictate many different types of social roles, in particular, gender roles. These gender roles imply that men and women...

Gender schema theory is a cognitive theory to explain how individuals become gendered in society, and how sex-linked characteristics are maintained and...

Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory with the axiom of choice. Besides its foundational role, set theory also provides the framework to develop a mathematical theory of infinity...

for his role as Georgie Cooper in The Big Bang Theory franchise, appearing as a series regular in Young Sheldon (2017–2024). He reprises the role as a lead...

California, Santa Cruz. He was known as "Mr. Role Theory" because of his contributions to the social psychology of role-taking. Sarbin was born on May 8, 1911...

GNS theory is an informal field of study developed by Ron Edwards which attempts to create a unified theory of how role-playing games work. Focused on...

Polyvagal theory (PVT) is a collection of proposed evolutionary, neuroscientific, and psychological constructs pertaining to the role of the vagus nerve...

Altercasting is a theory created by Eugene Weinstein and Paul Deutschberger in 1963. The theory relies on the concept of persuasion. The goal of altercasting...

status hierarchies in small groups. The theory's best known branch, status characteristics theory, deals with the role that certain pieces of social information...

sociologist Talcott Parsons in 1951. The sick role fell out of favour in the 1990s replaced by social constructist theories. Parsons was a functionalist sociologist...

Robert Agnew Role strain, a concept in role theory in sociology This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Strain theory. If an internal...

teaching. Teacher-in-role theory highlights particularly the significance of differing status of the role in relation to the role of the students. Differing...

Symbolic interactionism is a sociological theory that develops from practical considerations and alludes to humans' particular use of shared language to...