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Answer 1

R.K. Merton has bought the role relationships as a mechanism of articulation of role in the role set.

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What Is Role Set?

Role set is the term used to describe the variety of roles and relationships you have as a result of your status in society. For instance, a high school student interacts with a variety of different people as he goes through the school year, including teachers, guidance counselors, the principal and administration, and his peers. His role set includes the different behaviors, or roles, he uses to meet the demands of this one social status of 'student.'

Everyone has a status set, or a combination of many social statuses. Social statuses include our gender, occupation, ethnic group, volunteer associations, and hobbies. We can either choose to associate ourselves with a status (an achieved status), such as an occupation, or we are born into one (an ascribed status), such as our ethnicity. So one person may have a status set that includes being a woman, a sales professional, a mother, a daughter, a sister, a person with a Latina heritage, and a volunteer tutor.

Roles are the way that statuses get expressed. For instance, a person whose status in society is 'high school student' will behave in particular ways. This behavior is the 'role' the student is playing. Likewise, a 'sales professional' will behave in a certain way, and a 'volunteer tutor' in still another way. Each social status can be expressed through the roles we act out.

In 1957, American sociologist Robert K. Merton made the term 'role set' the topic of an article he wrote for the British Journal of Sociology. Merton was specifically interested in the variety of ever-changing roles a person plays when expressing a single social status. For instance, when a lawyer is involved in lawyer-related activities, she changes her behavior depending on the other person or people in the interaction. When talking with a judge, a lawyer will have one set of behaviors, compared with the role she has when she is talking with a client she is representing. Her status as 'lawyer' includes more than one role. By describing this concept in a way others had not before, Merton opened the door for sociologists to look at the idea of roles more closely and have conversations about its importance.