Social Roles

Roles: role, occupant, expectation, transgression, institution, audience

The structured expectations attached to positions within social systems — parent, teacher, leader, stranger. Roles exist independently of their occupants, can be performed well or badly, and carry scripts that constrain behavior. Structurally interesting because the gap between role and occupant creates space for performance, subversion, and conflict.

As Source Frame (18)

• AI Is an Intern → artificial-intelligence
• An Instrument Is a Companion → tool-use
• Aspects Of The Self Are Distinct Individuals → mental-experience
• Ideas Are People → intellectual-inquiry
• Machines Are People → manufacturing
• More Knowledgeable Other
• Mr. Market
• Nation Is a Family → governance
• Nation Is a Person → governance
• Orphan Process → software-programs
• Process Parent-Child → software-programs
• Relationship Is Kinship → social-behavior
• The Interpreter Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Memento Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Proxy Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Singleton Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Visitor Pattern → object-oriented-design
• Theories Are People → intellectual-inquiry

Applied To This Frame (10)

• mythology → The Chosen One
• mythology → Mentor
• economics → Responsibilities Are Possessions
• organism → Society Is a Body
• embodied-experience → Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down
• ontological-hierarchy → The Great Chain of Being
• mythology → The Hero
• mythology → The Persona
• mythology → The Shapeshifter
• mythology → The Trickster