<P> 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 behaviour and may have a given individual social status or social position . It is vital to both functionalist and interactionist understandings of society . Social role posits the following about social behaviour : </P>
what is meant by the term social roles
a set of connected behaviors , rights , obligations , beliefs , and norms as conceptualized by people in a social situation an expected or free or continuously changing behaviour and may have a given individual social status or social position