Role Theories 

Role theory in sociological gerontology is one of the earliest attempts at explaining how individuals adjust to aging. Individuals play a lot of roles in life. From child to students, friend, co-worker, sister, mother, wife, grandmother and many other roles. Our chronological age is used often to associated people with social roles especially in western cultures. Age norms and stereotypes can open and close roles are given in chronological age.  Unfortunately, in older adulthood the roles we take on can be easily taken away from us but this can also lead  to role gains. 

I found this video that I feel really explains role theories within social roles. This video talks about the roles we play as well as when we have different roles. My favorite part of this video is the role conflict in which responsibility and roles. It talks about being stressed out because of playing to many roles. 

http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/social-roles-definition-and-types-of-social-roles.html#lesson

Two Articles I found are:

The first one is on gender roles within  Role Theory.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3131694/

The Second is about role theories annual reviews .It is a PDF you have to open the link in-order to access the website.

http://www.annualreviews.org/doi/abs/10.1146/annurev.so.12.080186.000435

Two websites that I found very interesting in relation to Role Theories

https://www.extension.purdue.edu/purplewagon/FLEMat-QAT/PDF/Family_Theories.pdf


The second is about Social Role Theory

http://www.psych-it.com.au/Psychlopedia/article.asp?id=77