Investigating Staus and Roles

during my self analysis I completed the sentence "I am." Twenty times, completing it with my own individual characteristics. I then had my interviewee do the same about him. During my self-analysis attached in Appendix A I discovered three role sets each from an ascribed status, achieved status, and master status.

The first role set I uncovered was from my ascribed status of "Wife". I determined

my role set for this status daughter, siblings, friends . My determining for these

role sets is because of my status as a wife I have created, or changed relationships

with my husband, my siblings, friends and co- workers. I tend to act differently as a wife in front of my family when dealing with my husband . How my husband and I may interact privately tends to be different than how we act in front of our family. Also now we have relationships with new people such as neighbors and other married couples. Such relationships I did not have or see need in the same way I do now as a wife. The second role set I uncovered was from my achieved status of "World Traveler". I determined my role set for this status was; travel agents, airline workers, security personnel, hotel concierges, and limo personnel. I frequently socialize with all of these personnel when I travel. If I were to not converse at a social level with these role sets traveling would become difficult to impossible. I have also learned from each different role set, information that benefits me. Some information I learned enables me to make better traveling decisions. Such examples are: finding out special points of interest or local knowledge of an area, attaining advanced information of potential delays in travel, new policies, or improvements in services that directly affect me.

The last role set to be uncovered for my self-analysis was from my master status of "Military Member". I determined that my role set for this status was: media representatives, general public, co-workers, and other government officials. On an almost daily occurrence I have social dealings with each of these role sets in order to do my job. I need to communicate with other co-worker to manage the completion of tasks as well as keep them informed of schedule changes, upcoming events, and impertinent training that may effect them as well as our agencies readiness as a whole. Just recently I had to brief fifty highly paid and highly publicized business owners who were searching for a Department of Homeland Security or Department of Defense agencies to donate end of year profits to on what my agency and unit does. It was very important that I connected to these individuals on a social level to gain their understanding as well as interest in what my agency does and how the success of my agency can affect their everyday lives as well. Using my interviewee's self analysis I was able to identify his role sets from his ascribed, achieved, and master statuses. Those role sets uncovered are "Father", which included: mother, siblings, teachers, doctors, and school staff from his Ascribed Statuses. All of which he would have frequent social communications with to actively fulfill his job as a parent. "Coach" from his Achieved Statuses; which included: team players, assistant coaches, parents or agents, referees, doctors, sports therapists, and athletic trainers. For him to be an affective coach he

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