Role set

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Roles

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Role conflicts Role engulfment Role expectations Role models Role perception Role playing Role reversal Role satisfaction Role taking Role taking theory Role theory

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Counselor role Gender role Gender role attitudes Parental role Role ethics Sex role Sex role attitudes Therapist role

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Teacher student interaction Pretend play

A role set is a situation where a single status may have more than one role attached to it. This multiplicity of roles is what sociologists termed it as such

. Consider a student for instance, involves one role as a pupil, another as a user of university library, and another as a member of a faculty.

The term "role set" was coined by Robert K. Merton in 1957. He made a clear distinction between a "role set" and a "status set".