role conflict

Examples of role conflict in the following topics:

• Role Conflict

  • Role conflict describes the conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses held by one individual.
  • Role conflict describes a conflict between or among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses fulfilled by one individual.
  • The most obvious example of role conflict is work/family conflict, or the conflict one feels when pulled between familial and professional obligations.
  • In other words, they experience role conflict.
  • He is therefore unable to satisfy both of these incompatible expectations, and role conflict is the result .

• Conflicts of Interest

  • A person with two roles, such as an individual who owns stock and is also a government official, may experience situations where those two roles conflict.
  • The conflict can be mitigated but it still exists.
  • A person with two roles, such as an individual who owns stock and is also a government official, may experience situations where those two roles conflict.
  • Someone accused of a conflict of interest may deny that a conflict exists because he/she did not act improperly.
  • One way to understand this is to use the term "conflict of roles".

• The Conflict Perspective

  • Conflict theory suggests that men, as the dominant gender, subordinate women in order to maintain power and privilege in society.
  • While certain gender roles may have been appropriate in a hunter-gatherer society, conflict theorists argue that the only reason these roles persist is because the dominant group naturally works to maintain their power and status.
  • According to conflict theory, social problems are created when dominant groups exploit or oppress subordinate groups.
  • Conflict between the two groups caused things like the Women's Suffrage Movement and was responsible for social change.
  • Friedrich Engels, a German sociologist, studied family structure and gender roles from a Marxist perspective.

• Intergenerational Conflict

  • Intergenerational conflict refers to the conflict between older and younger generations as they compete for jobs and resources.
  • Intergenerational conflict plays a key role in the conflict perspective of aging.
  • The conflict perspective of aging is a strand of general sociological conflict theory, which is the theory that sees conflict as a normal aspect of social life rather than as an abnormal occurrence.
  • The conflict perspective of aging thus emphasizes competition between generations.
  • The conflict perspective of aging is not solely about resource acquisition.

• Role Theory

  • Role theory is, in fact, predictive.
  • What's more, role theory also argues that in order to change behavior it is necessary to change roles; roles correspond to behaviors and vice versa.
  • Role theory has a hard time explaining social deviance when it does not correspond to a pre-specified role.
  • But if a bank teller simply begins handing out cash to random people, role theory would be unable to explain why (though role conflict could be one possible answer; the secretary may also be a Marxist-Communist who believes the means of production should belong to the masses and not the bourgeoisie).
  • Additionally, role theory does not explain when and how role expectations change.

• Teaching for Conceptual Change

  • Teaching for conceptual change requires a constructivist approach in which learners take an active role in reorganizing their knowledge.
  • Cognitive conflict strategies, derived from a Piagetian constructivist view of learning, are effective tools in teaching for conceptual change (Duit, 1999).
  • These strategies involve creating situations where learners' existing conceptions about particular phenomena or topics are made explicit and then directly challenged in order to create a state of cognitive conflict or disequilibrium.
  • Cognitive conflict strategies are aligned with Posner et al.' s theory of conceptual change in that their common goal is to create the four conditions necessary for conceptual change.

• The Functionalist Perspective

  • In the 1960s, functionalism was criticized for being unable to account for social change, or for structural contradictions and conflict (and thus was often called "consensus theory"), and for ignoring systematic inequalities including race, gender, and class, which cause tension and conflict.
  • As noted sociologist Michael Omi observes, "The structural-functionalist framework generally stressed the unifying role of culture, and particularly American values, in regulating and resolving conflicts.
  • It is less well-adapted to understanding individual discrimination because it ignores the inequalities that cause tension and conflict.
  • During the turbulent 1960s, functionalism was often called "consensus theory," criticized for being unable to account for social change or structural contradictions and conflict, including inequalities related to race, gender, class, and other social factors that are a source of oppression and conflict.

• Introduction to Share Management Tasks as Well as Technical Tasks

  • Sometimes management roles are formalized, and sometimes they happen spontaneously.
  • Some of these roles we made a conscious decision to initiate, others just happened by themselves; as the project grows, I expect more roles to be added.
  • These roles are all about responsibility without monopoly.
  • An important part of each domain manager's job is to notice when other people are working in that domain, and train them to do the things the way the manager does, so that the multiple efforts reinforce rather than conflict.
  • Sometimes there is a conflict: two or more people want the same role.

• The Conflict Perspective

  • The conflict perspective views the family as a vehicle to maintain patriarchy (gender inequality) and social inequality in society.
  • The Conflict perspective refers to the inequalities that exist in all societies globally.
  • According to conflict theorists, the family works toward the continuance of social inequality within a society by maintaining and reinforcing the status quo.
  • Conflict theorists have also seen the family as a social arrangement benefiting men more than women, allowing men to maintain a position of power.
  • Traditional male roles and responsibilities are valued more than the traditional roles done by their wives (i.e., housekeeping, child rearing).

• National Security Argument

  • An interesting discussion in economics is the relationship between trade and conflict.
  • It has been noted, somewhat intuitively and empirically, that conflict reduces trade.
  • However, is it also the case that trade reduces conflict?
  • It is hypothesized that trade does not necessarily reduce conflict, but instead changes the nature of the conflict.
  • Sanctions also play a dramatic role as an offensive militaristic maneuver.