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Socially Valued Roles

Socially Valued Roles. The Heart of a Good Life. Positive vs Negative roles. The Major Negative Roles into which Devalued People Are Placed. Sub-human: Object, Animal, Vegetable. Menace: Object of Fear. Object of Ridicule. Object of Pity. Burden: Of Charity, On others.

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Socially Valued Roles

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  1. Socially ValuedRoles The Heart of a Good Life

  2. Positive vs Negative roles

  3. The Major Negative Roles into which Devalued People Are Placed • Sub-human: Object, Animal, Vegetable. • Menace: Object of Fear. • Object of Ridicule. • Object of Pity. • Burden: Of Charity, On others. • Child: Eternally, Once again. • Client (forever, for everything). • Sick. • Garbage, Discard. • Dead, Dying, Better off dead.

  4. “She is my forever child”, Jean says of Moya, who is 36 years old.

  5. “……using service lifts everywhere, because Moya was thought to be contagious”.

  6. Expectations of a Roleare formed by: • The settings people are placed into • The groupings and associations given • The activities and use of time • The appearance of people • The language to and about people • A variety of other ways

  7. Different aspects of roles… • Positive v’s Negative Roles. • Hunger (avidity) for roles. • Big v’s Little. • Primary vs Secondary. • Achieved vs Ascribed roles. • Complimentary roles.

  8. What Roles Bring • Status and identity. • Where we ‘belong’. • With whom we ‘belong’. • Autonomy and freedom. • Personal growth and development opportunities to contribute. • How we see ourselves. • How others see us.

  9. ‘If we believe you’re like it and treat you like it, you’ll become like it’ What you think of me I’ll think of me, And what I think of me, I’ll be.

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