Role Conflicts and Role taking

Everyone plays at least one role, and many people play many roles at once. Students, sons/daughters, friends, and/or siblings are all roles that we as youngsters try to perform on a daily basis.

On the one hand, tangible examples such as teacher, student, adviser, facilitator, examiner, examinee, freshman, mentor, tutor, and so on can be used to characterise roles in the context of learning. It can, on the other hand, be defined in a more abstract way: A role is a collection of behaviours, rights, and responsibilities that are periodically allocated to different people. While a person visits his or her parents, for example, he or she will be seen as a child; when he or she is at university, he or she will be seen as a student; and in debates, he or she will be seen as a facilitator to move the group forward- The function that one assumes is determined by the social situation and varies among societies. As a result, the person who assumes the function is given a set of expectations to address and communicate.

Everyone has a role to play in life. In a specific setting, a role is a set of expectations. A manager's responsibilities, for example, includes leading a team of employees, organising time sheets for employees, and resolving any difficulties that emerge during the workday.

When a person's role or responsibilities cause conflict for the person or others, this is known as role conflict.

In sociology, role conflict refers to the societal roles that everyone encounters, whether at job, school, or at home. When one role's needs collide with those of another, a conflict might arise.

Some of the common experiences I had with role conflicts are as follows:

-When my parent has decide between attending their child's crucial sporting activities or completing their work related tasks. Owing to this, there is a work-family role conflict.

-When as a student I must choose between completing a college assignment and completing a job project that are both due at the same time, a work-student role conflict arises.

-When I have to pick between spending time with my mother on her birthday and doing an essential assignment due on the same day, a daughter-student role conflict arises.

-An example of parental intra-role conflict I experienced was when my parent was torn between not allowing their child to risk injury and allowing the youngster to succeed in conquering a rock wall climbing session.

The concept of 'role-taking' has gained prominence in role analysis. Role-taking, also known as playing the other, is when a person responds by mentally or imaginatively putting himself in the shoes of another person in order to control his own behaviour.

He does this solely to meet the expectations of others, not necessarily in the direction of conformity. When discussing social interaction, sociologists coined the phrase 'role-taking,' which refers to when one actor initiates a behaviour and other actors react to it.

A classic experience of role taking faced by almost all of us is while playing childhood role taking games like "home" or "school." One youngster plays the part of mother or instructor, while the other plays the part of father or pupil. These roles have already been established: the "mother" cooks/cleans/do whatever the child has been taught about motherhood, and the "father" acts in accordance with their family's expectations.