Social role beliefs are important to study as they shape individual’s pattern of thinking about their roles categorized gender-specific or egalitarian in society. The present investigated cross-cultural variations individualistic versus collectivist cultures well underlying dimensions the Roles Questionnaire using two independent samples students (N = 1111). From United Kingdom, 108 men (Mage 2...

Does sociology have anything to gain by returning the concept of social role? Has this been irretrievably damaged its significance in functionalist theory? This article aims recover role through a consideration alternative perspectives on normativity, illustrated research motherhood. A pragmatist re-conception is defended as way focusing those aspects structures which exert normative authority ...

Insights from social and cognitive neuroscience should inform the design of socially assistive robots for neurorehabilitation as novel roles emerge them in human-human interactions.

The expansion of web user roles is, nowadays, a fact due to the ability of users to interact, discuss, exchange ideas and opinions, and form social networks through the web. The interaction level among users leads to the appearance of several social roles which can be characterized as positions, behaviors, or virtual identities. These roles may be developed in social networks, and they keep cha...