Social Roles In A Social Unit

Almost every person has a role and a status in everything they do in their daily lives. These help define how we as humans have social roles and how we perceive not only our social status and roles but the roles of others too. Every person’s situation in a social unit is influenced by the position they occupy. These situations help create the social unit which is on the smaller size and a meso social unit, includes a medium size. Each person has a status, or a position in a social unit. Each social unit consists of a status network or status system. The status network or system is structural and there are always things changing and processes that are in place in order to have it run successfully. The past three summers I worked as a Lifeguard at BCC. BCC is a meso size social unit, not

I would often pick up more towels or straighten up the chairs to seem as if I was working hard. In order to show my line, or behavior in the social structure, I would show up to work on time and never skip shifts. My face, or identity was represented through this and it showed I was punctual and cared about being on time for my job. The social identity of myself is the way other people think of me. The way we identify ourselves and behave gives a certain line and the line then creates a face or a way we portray ourselves as our identity. Throughout my three years there were a few times I was worried about losing face, also known as losing the valued social identity I had at Baltimore Country Club. A few times I asked for people to cover my shifts in order to attend social events. However, after doing this I began to try to save face, I felt as if my social identity was threatened and people would not think I was a hard worker. Therefore, I would ask to cover shifts so I did not have to worry about losing my social