An essay entitled ‘We Are Turning Too Many People Into Medical Patients’ in the Wall Street Journal (17 March 2025) is interesting to read in relation to the concept of the sick and patient roles… Read More »‘We Are Turning Too Many People Into Medical Patients’
An emphasis that often comes up in SRV training is to encourage those learning about and implementing SRV to think, plan and act in terms of roles, not just of activities. Social roles are clearly… Read More »roles versus activity
An article to read and discuss from an SRV perspective. What valued social roles might this open the door to, and thus increase the probability of greater access to the good things of life? (Note… Read More »NY Times article: ‘Hand of a Superhero’
I just read an entry on the ‘Everyday Sociology’ blog sponsored by Norton Publishing. The entry is about role theory, and touches on: expectations, social status and behaviors. I like the idea of trying to… Read More »role theory on the ‘everyday sociology’ blog
Social Role Valorization (SRV) and PASSING teach us that social roles (valued or devalued) can be communicated to observers, as well as to role incumbents themselves, through such channels as: • setting • activity, schedule,… Read More »Communicating the valued social role of student … or not?!
Thanks to Bill Forman for sharing this news item from the Globe & Mail. The brief anecdote is an example of being socialized into the devalued role of prisoner, so that the role eventually becomes… Read More »Globe and Mail news item: when prison feels like home