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The Development of a Model for the Role Analysis of the Elementary School Principalship Adapting Role Theory
Abstract
The concept of role has assumed a key position in the fields of sociology, social psychology, and cultural anthropology. Students of the social sciences frequently make use of it as a central term in conceptual schemes for the analysis of the structure and functioning of social systems and for the explanation of individual behavior (Gross, 1966).The review of the literature in education reveals only a specialized type of attention to role theory, although it has been widely discussed by social scientists since the mid-thirties. Role theory is an essential element in George Mead's (1934) theory of the development of self. Through the role concept, Ralph Linton (1936) provided American social anthropology with a link between culture and social structure. The role concept is pivotal in Talcott Parsons' (1951) theoretical framework for the analysis of social systems.Role theory is a crucial element in the central problems of social psychology as defined by Theodore Newcomb (1951) and Theodore Sarbin (1968). Helen Perlman (1957) included the use of role concepts. in her formulation of casework practice where we read that a person's behavior"... is both shaped and judged by the expectations he and his culture have invested in the status and the major social role he carries."
Subject Area
Elementary education
Recommended Citation
PALMER, MARY LOU NICHOLLS, "The Development of a Model for the Role Analysis of the Elementary School Principalship Adapting Role Theory" (1975). ETD collection for University of Nebraska-Lincoln. AAI7613344.
https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI7613344