Role Conflict and Role Strain

Lugh Goes to School, Personal thoughts 2 Minutes

Role Conflict

occurs when seemingly incompatible social expectations exist while attempting to act in multiple roles at once.

Role Strain

The strain individuals feel as they try to occupy two groups at once.

Simulacra

copies that depict things that either had no original or that no longer have an original

I am but a Junior in this whole study of sociology, but as I read I have to reason and evaluate and postulate upon the concepts I am encountering, there are times to I have to write things out and this is again one of them. As with most things I write about I draw upon personal perspectives and real-world occurrences. There are many who do not like what I write, they feel I should just shut up and go away. Sorry, that is not going to happen, If I can help but one person out there, if what I have written gives one person hope, or possibly even an “AHA” moment I will take that as being some measure of success.

I am trying not to live in the past, for I truly believe that one who lives there has no future, but there occasionally comes a time when I read or encounter something that thrusts me back there and I am left with a few options on how to deal with it. Stay up all night with the thoughts running around in my head or writing. More so lately I am choosing to write, I truly wish I could take my thoughts directly out of my head and place them on a computer screen. This writing thing is just way too slow. Although this may be a good thing because it is causing me to slow down and think. But just be forewarned that my writing may seem to go all over the place.

So tonight these three things came up in my reading for my sociology course 1/ Role Conflict, 2/ Role Strain, and 3/ Simulacra. now, what do these things hold in common in my mind at the moment? Simulacra: depictions of things that have no original or that no longer have an original. To put this in perspective this is how my head views the concept of Simulacra, going back to a place such as a vacation spot, job, group, or other such thing and you have created an image or expectation or memory in your head of that thing and not having that thing live up to your expectations. Role conflict, let us expand on that a bit and call this internal conflict, where your mind is trying to resolve the difference between what you believe should be and what is in fact real. Role strain your mind’s inevitable response to being incapable of resolving said role conflict, and IMHO sometimes results in depression.

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