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Role making

Role making describes how expected behavior is created and modified in interaction, a tentative process in which roles are identified and given content on shifting as interaction proceeds. Symbolic interactionists tend to avoid the extreme relativism implied by role making. Roles are fluid and every interaction produces a different and unique role and asserts that role making produces consistent patterns of behavior that can be identified with various types of social actors.

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