Role Theory - Literature

Literature

  • Mead, George H. (1934). Mind, Self, and Society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
  • Parsons, Talcott (1951). The Social System.
  • Robert K. Merton, Social Theory and Social Structure, 1949
  • Ralf Dahrendorf, Homo sociologicus, 1958 (in German, many editions)
  • Rose Laub Coser, “The Complexity of Roles as a Seedbed of Individual Autonomy”, in: The Idea of Social Structure: Papers in Honor of Robert K. Merton, 1975
  • Ralph Linton, "The Study of Man", Chapter 8, "Status and Role", 1936

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