Roles serve many functions in society. In this sequence, I will focus primarily on labor-sharing roles, i.e. roles that serve splitting up productive functions as opposed to imaginary roles e.g. in theater or play. Examples of these roles are (ordered roughly by how specific they are):
Parent
Engineer (any kind of general type of job)
Battery Electronics Engineer (any kind of specific job description)
Chairman of a society/club
Manager for a certain (type of) project in a company
Member in an online community
Scrum master in an agile team
Note-taker in a meeting
You probably know the note-taker role. The tasks to be performed are: Writing down key discussion points and decisions, asking questions in cases where the points discussed were not clear, and sending around the notes to all participants of the meeting. The goal is usually to keep a record to consult later. Additionally, the note-taker is usually expected to be neural. Other expectations might be how timely the notes are sent around.
Some examples of what is commonly called a role but not in our strict labor-sharing sense:
Children playing father, mother, kid or playing animals
Role acting e.g. in theater (where the term role originates)
And some non-examples for roles in the labor-sharing world:
Participant in a conversation
Responsible for organizing a specific meeting
Responsible for a specific post in a forum
Borderline case: Founder of a company. There is little pre-existing knowledge of what founders can or should do in general. In their company expectations on them will evolve quickly and taking on and off the role is not easy.
Roles serve many functions in society. In this sequence, I will focus primarily on labor-sharing roles, i.e. roles that serve splitting up productive functions as opposed to imaginary roles e.g. in theater or play. Examples of these roles are (ordered roughly by how specific they are):
Parent
Engineer (any kind of general type of job)
Battery Electronics Engineer (any kind of specific job description)
Chairman of a society/club
Manager for a certain (type of) project in a company
Member in an online community
Scrum master in an agile team
Note-taker in a meeting
You probably know the note-taker role. The tasks to be performed are: Writing down key discussion points and decisions, asking questions in cases where the points discussed were not clear, and sending around the notes to all participants of the meeting. The goal is usually to keep a record to consult later. Additionally, the note-taker is usually expected to be neural. Other expectations might be how timely the notes are sent around.
Some examples of what is commonly called a role but not in our strict labor-sharing sense:
Children playing father, mother, kid or playing animals
Role acting e.g. in theater (where the term role originates)
And some non-examples for roles in the labor-sharing world:
Participant in a conversation
Responsible for organizing a specific meeting
Responsible for a specific post in a forum
Borderline case: Founder of a company. There is little pre-existing knowledge of what founders can or should do in general. In their company expectations on them will evolve quickly and taking on and off the role is not easy.