Social Roles

Roles: role, occupant, expectation, transgression, institution, audience

The structured expectations attached to positions within social systems — parent, teacher, leader, stranger. Roles exist independently of their occupants, can be performed well or badly, and carry scripts that constrain behavior. Structurally interesting because the gap between role and occupant creates space for performance, subversion, and conflict.

As Source Frame (8)

• An Instrument Is a Companion → tool-use
• Ideas Are People → intellectual-inquiry
• Orphan Process → software-programs
• The Interpreter Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Memento Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Proxy Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Singleton Pattern → object-oriented-design
• The Visitor Pattern → object-oriented-design

As Target Frame (2)

• embodied-experience → Status Is Up; Lack Of Status Is Down
• mythology → The Trickster