Social Role Taking

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Social Role Taking Empathy

• Soc.-cognition development is related to growth
  of role-taking skills
• The ability to understand a persons thoughts,
  feelings, motives, and intentions and to assume
  his/her perspective is role-taking behavior
• you know what I am saying-where I am coming from

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Stages of Social Role Taking 4-5 stages

• Pre-scholars (3-6) are Egocentric.
  Unaware of any perspective
  other than their own Called egocentric and
  undifferentiated perspective/stages
• Primary years (6-8) Recognize that other people
  can have perspectives different from their own.
  BUT their reasoning is, that other people have
  different information, that is why they differ in
  their perspective.
  Labeled as
  Social-information Role-Taking Stage
• Continued -

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Continued Stages of Social Role Taking

• Self-Reflective Stage (8-10)Capable of putting
  themselves in some other persons shoes. Realize
  differences in perspective ( possible conflict)
  can/does occur However they cannot consider their
  own and other persons perspective simultaneously
• Mutual Role-Taking Stage (10-12) Can
  simultaneously consider his/her own and anothers
  perspective Can assume perspective of 3rd party
  and reason from it.
• Continued -

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Continued Stages of Social Role Taking

• Social Role-taking is complete when Social
  Conventional System Role-Taking occurs
• -You understand the perspective of others in the
  relationship/situation.
• -Can compare their own viewpoints to others in
  social systems/situation
• -That is they realize when their viewpoints are
  in or out of line with the social group
  can/may modify to be in line with social
  group/systems perspective.

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Emotional Role-Taking

• Occurs early
• Infants can in fact experience emotions of other
  people
• Babies experience exhibit distress when they
  see others experience certain distresses
• Does not mean they are reacting sympathetically
• Continued -

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Continued Emotional Role-Taking

• They are egocentric only identify to extent
  that they would feel distress in that situation
  (unable to generalize)
• Knowing what you know about social-cognition
  social role taking, how would you children
  involved react to the following
• First graders are playing with a ball on the
  playground Jim/Jill kicks the ball which
  strikes Sam/sally in the face. Sam/Sally is
  angry, a fight erupts.