Henslin describes that when we are born, we have roles set up for us.(p.103) Roles meaning as behaviors, obligations, and privileges attached to a status. (p.103) A great example of a role is a student in college is to take notes, study, read and show up for class. Also Henslin explains that roles attached to statuses lay down the basic outline for our performance and allows a great deal of flexibility. (p.115) Henslin defines that role conflict is conflicts that someone feels between roles because of the expectations are at odd with another meaning that many different roles in a person's life come crashing together.(p.116) A good example of role conflict in my life was when midterm week rolled around and had 2 midterms to study for within…show more content… Goffman defines impression management as “people’s efforts to control the impressions that others receive of them.”(p.115) How to use impression management to change role strain is for the example that Henslin gave us- a student not wanting to answer the question the professor asked because they did not want another students to look bad or judge them for knowing, the student should appear “dominate” and answer the question and not care what they think. A good example in my life to use impression management is I may have a lot of demands to get my work done in each class by all my teachers and I can impress them by doing all of my work, and turning my assignments on time or even early. Role conflict can be hard to change because it's hard to just be one “status” in your lifetime. So if their status is a mother, student, friend, and also a worker and two or more of them coming crashing together it's a role conflict and they would have to drop all but one status to decide on what to do and what's more important to
