Mitchell Centre seminar series
| Dates: | 30 March 2022 |
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| Times: | 16:00 - 17:00 |
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| What is it: | Seminar |
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| Organiser: | School of Social Sciences |
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Andras Voros
University of Manchester
Social role attribution networks
Social roles are considered to be key for understanding individual outcomes and the functioning of groups in a wide range of social science disciplines, including sociology, social psychology, and social network research. At the same time, a variety of concepts are used across these fields to define what a role is. A relatively understudied form of roles are so-called informal social roles. They represent roles that are defined and distributed in the process of interactions. For example, some individuals may be leaders of group activities or effective mediators in group conflicts. Such roles arguably exist to a large part because they are attributed to individuals by their peers in specific groups. Their other intriguing characteristic is that peers may disagree on who plays a given role. Informal roles are difficult to study by classic approaches, because they are strongly contextual and based on peer consensus. In this talk, I explore the study of informal social roles through role attribution networks. I discuss how roles may be defined based on such networks and what concepts we may use to describe them. I examine the empirical patterns of role attributions across seven types of roles measured in 27 high-school classrooms in Hungary. The results present a first step in understanding the dynamics of social role attribution networks and individual and group-level outcomes.
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