Anyone know a good book on basic role theory? Not from a purely feminist point of view, although this may be important i want to explore the idea that it is something that has to be learned in order to fit into the workplace, and include the way this idea can be manipulated to aid compliance when the role is adjusted to suit the employer.
Hi Joyce, I've got the Encyclopaedia of Social Pscyhology and it has a section in it in Role Theory with a list of references for further reading. I can e-mail the book to you if you like? Just PM me. Thanks.:-)
There's a guy called Biddle who is a sociologist. He wrote a couple of books on role theory: however, they are a bit dated in term's of - well, I think my reference for the one of his I used was 1971. So of course you need more recent ones as well when you use him-as only an aspect of my thesis includes role-I could then flesh him out with snippets and journal articles from more recent educational researchers, such as Pajares on roles and beliefs( Pajares though really has a teacher focus). Biddle really does go into role though and was fantastic to assist with my definitions.
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there's quite a bit of stuff about identities at work e.g. gender/ethnicity identity and then professional identities - there may be something there that is of interest.
Thanks for the information. My thesis has taken a bit of a turn from when I started and is leading me into unknown territory in areas that never even appeared on the original horizon. I'm panicking a bit now as even though I'm only half way through there seems to be so many more areas I'm going to have to get to grips with that I think I'm going to run out of time!
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