Recent developments in role theory¶
Biddle, B. J. (1986). Recent developments in role theory. Annual Review of Sociology, 67-92.
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Primes¶
- Role
- The same two-layer separation that lets a sociologist say "the office of the presidency outlasts any president" lets a programmer say "this code depends on the interface, not the concrete class," and lets an ecologist say "the decomposer niche is filled by fungi here and by bacteria there."
This sourceReviews the convergent role concepts that arose independently across sociology, anthropology, psychology, and organizational science, documenting the position/incumbent separation and the substitution-and-composition reasoning the slot abstraction enables.
- The same two-layer separation that lets a sociologist say "the office of the presidency outlasts any president" lets a programmer say "this code depends on the interface, not the concrete class," and lets an ecologist say "the decomposer niche is filled by fungi here and by bacteria there."
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