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Write short note: Role conflict.

  • UPSC 2000
  • Stratification and Mobility

Role conflict is a situation in which a person is subject to two or more incompatible sets of role expectations, so that conformity to one entails deviation from another. It builds on Ralph Linton's distinction (The Study of Man, 1936) between status, a position, and role, the behaviour expected of its occupant. Since every individual…

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  • Types of role conflict
  • Merton's role-set
  • Goode's role strain
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