Gender Role: Attitudes, patterns of behavior, and personality attributes defined by the culture in which the person lives as stereotypically masculine or feminine social roles.

 

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Gender Role: Attitudes, patterns of behavior, and personality attributes defined by the culture in which the person lives as stereotypically masculine or feminine social roles.

Role: Another term for an actor's part in a play.

Proletariat: In Marxist terms, the working class: this least powerful group works to survive, selling its labor to the bourgeoisie.

Prolepsis: Anticipation.

Petroleum: A group of liquid hydrocarbons that includes: crude oil, lease condensate, unfinished oils, refined products obtained from the processing of crude oil, and natural gas liquids.

Role Playing: A training method in which each participant purposely acts out or assumes a particular character or role.

Parole: In Ferdinand de Saussure's theory of semiology, parole is the use of language--i.e., manifestations of actual speech and writing. Parole contrasts with langue, the invisible underlying syste . . . View Full Definition

Sick Role: An identity adopted by an individual as a patient that specifies a set of expected behaviors, usually dependent.

Role-Playing Game (RPG): Lengthy, slow moving game with elaborate storylines that involve going on a quest and developing one or more characters on the way. Although traditionally turn-based, newer rpgs tend to inco . . . View Full Definition

Role Playing Game: A type or genre of game in which the player takes the part of a character. Usually a turn-based game in which the player character endures the effects of 'hit points' and attribute value cha . . . View Full Definition