Robert Merton's role theory provides a way to describe social interaction. Key concepts include status, roles, role strain, role conflict, status set, ascribed status, achieved status, and master status.

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Robert Merton was an american sociologist and one of the most outstanding of the 20th century, he contributed with his studies to consolidate a place of relevance for sociology, in the analysis of crime and divergent behaviors/study of social life. In his structural analysis (Role theory), Merton was interested in seeing social organization based on the status and positions of people, to understand the organized set of social relations. Through them, members of society or a community exercise their roles guided by common moral norms from which consequences emerge (intentional and unintentional), and that allow their institutions to be identified. The imbalances, inconsistencies, role strain, impossibilities and conflicts between specific roles and actors are suggested as constitutive of the functioning of the social, and can therefore be assumed and specified in any construction of explanations that account for the dynamics and logics of the social interaction.

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The role theory posed by Robert Merton considers the everyday activity and social interactions. It has categorized different set of duties and rights, expectations, behaviors and norms which are to be fulfilled by any person of the society.