The Neighborhood Sociologist

The Neighborhood Sociologist

Groups are not unique, conditions are.

Some things your sociologist never told you - Part 5

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Rod Graham
Oct 13, 2025
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In the last part of this series, I talked about “scripts”. Scripts are the unwritten lines, stage directions, cues, and notes that shape how people behave in particular situations. The term implies an actor on a stage, and that is intentional. The scripts we learn allow us to perform, as it were, the many roles we have in life. The roles we have are in…

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