B. A master status is a status that has exceptional importance for social identity, often shaping a person's entire life. A role consists of behavior expected of someone who holds a particular status. Role performance differs from role expectation 2. Roles are relational, organizing our behavior toward some other person 3. The term role set refers to a number of roles attached to a single status B. Role Conflict and Role Strain 1.
Role conflict refers to incompatibility among roles corresponding to two or more different statuses.
Insulating roles from one another 2. Role Strain refers to incompatibility among roles corresponding to a single status. C. Role exit is the process by which people disengage from social roles that have been central to their lives. The social construction of reality is the process by which individuals creatively shape reality through social interaction. The Thomas Theorem states that situations we define as real become real in their consequences B. Ethnomethodology is a subfield of sociology developed by Harold Garfinkel which studies the way people make sense of their everyday lives.