Role

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  • The assigned or assumed function or position of an individual. Allowed Values: Archive Specialist Co-Investigator Contributor Data Producer Deputy-PI Former-PI General Contact Metadata Contact Principal Investigator Project Scientist Publisher Scientist Team Leader Team Member Technical Contact
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Abstract from DBPedia
    A role (also rôle or social role) is a set of connected behaviors, rights, obligations, beliefs, and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation. It is an expected or free or continuously changing behavior and may have a given individual social status or social position. It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society. Social role theory posits the following about social behavior: 1. * The division of labour in society takes the form of the interaction among heterogeneous specialized positions, we call roles. 2. * Social roles included appropriate and permitted forms of behavior and actions that recur in a group, guided by social norms, which are commonly known and hence determine the expectations for appropriate behavior in these roles, which further explains the place of a person in the society. 3. * Roles are occupied by individuals, who are called actors. 4. * When individuals approve of a social role (i.e., they consider the role legitimate and constructive), they will incur costs to conform to role norms, and will also incur costs to punish those who violate role norms. 5. * Changed conditions can render a social role outdated or illegitimate, in which case social pressures are likely to lead to role change. 6. * The anticipation of rewards and punishments, as well as the satisfaction of behaving pro-socially, account for why agents conform to role requirements. The notion of the role can be and is examined in the social sciences, specifically economics, sociology and organizational theory.

    役割(やくわり)又は社会的役割(しゃかいてきやくわり)は社会的な状況で行為者によって概念化される1つに結合した振る舞いと権利と義務のこと(すなわち期待され学習される行動様式)である。

    (Source: http://dbpedia.org/resource/Role)