Social Roles and Social Categorization Purpose: The purpose of this assignment i

Social Roles and Social Categorization
Purpose: The purpose of this assignment is to explore social roles, social categorization, and how they apply to social psychology.
Using your textbooks and other credible/scholarly sources, define the following concepts:
Social role
Social categorization
Explain why people adopt social roles.
What happens when people experience role strain and role conflict?
Explain why people use social categorization.
What are the consequences (positive and negative) of social categorization?
Reminders:
Follow APA guidelines to format your response
Support factual information and assertions with credible and/or scholarly sources.
Use in-text citations and include a references page – APA format
THE TEXTBOOK IS:
Open Textbook Library: Principles of Social Psychology (Links to an external site.) (2015) published by the University of Minnesota Libraries Publishing.
Supplemental materials (e.g. videos, excerpts from chapters) from “Together: The Science of Social Psychology (Links to an external site.)” by NOBA