SOC103H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Erving Goffman, Solomon Judah Loeb Rapoport, Role Theory
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We follow a number of scripts, because we follow a variety of roles: although our roles and identities play an important part in shaping our behavior, the groups we belong to also have a large influence. Roles are important for the team to function, since leaders are need to unify the team and players are need to carry out the commands of the leader to achieve the group"s goals. Initiation (for example) requires a progressively greater commitment to norms and institutions that endow the deviant action with meaning and value. Being labeled a deviant requires interaction/commitment with an outside group and the rejection of views held by the larger society. Social scripts are most closely associated with the dramaturgical approach of symbolic interactionism (goffman: goffman showed that we can understand and think with costumes, scripts, audiences and roles, of course, social life is not a scripted play. His approach is a useful metaphor about social life.
