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Role model, the Glossary

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A role model is a person whose behaviour, example, or success serves as a model to be emulated by others, especially by younger people.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 25 relations: Association of Teachers and Lecturers, Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Goodrich, Celebrity, Charles Barkley, Child, Famous for being famous, Forbes, Friedrich Weyerhäuser, Gatekeeper, Glass ceiling, Hank Greenberg, Identification (psychology), Imperial German influence on Republican Chile, Mentorship, Model, Personal network, Reality television, Robert K. Merton, Role engulfment, Self-efficacy, Show business, Social capital, Thomas Mellon, Types of social groups.

  2. Robert K. Merton
  3. Role status
  4. Socialization

Association of Teachers and Lecturers

The Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) was a trade union, teachers' union and professional association, affiliated to the Trades Union Congress, in the United Kingdom representing educators from nursery and primary education to further education.

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Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin (April 17, 1790) was an American polymath: a leading writer, scientist, inventor, statesman, diplomat, printer, publisher and political philosopher.

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Benjamin Goodrich

Benjamin Franklin Goodrich (November 4, 1841 – August 3, 1888) was an American industrialist in the rubber industry and founder of B.F. Goodrich Company.

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Celebrity

Celebrity is a condition of fame and broad public recognition of a person or group as a result of the attention given to them by mass media.

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Charles Barkley

Charles Wade Barkley (born February 20, 1963) is an American former professional basketball player who is a television analyst on TNT and CBS Sports.

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Child

A child is a human being between the stages of birth and puberty, or between the developmental period of infancy and puberty.

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Famous for being famous

Famous for being famous is a term, usually used pejoratively, for someone who attains celebrity status for no clearly identifiable reason (as opposed to fame based on achievement, skill, or talent) and appears to generate their own fame, or someone who achieves fame through a family or relationship association with an existing celebrity. Role model and famous for being famous are social influence.

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Forbes

Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.

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Friedrich Weyerhäuser

Friedrich (Frederick) Weyerhäuser (November 21, 1834 – April 4, 1914), also spelled Weyerhaeuser, was a German-American timber mogul and founder of the Weyerhaeuser Company, which owns sawmills, paper factories, and other business enterprises as well as large areas of forested land in the northern United States.

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Gatekeeper

A gatekeeper is a person who controls access to something, for example via a city gate or bouncer, or more abstractly, controls who is granted access to a category or status.

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Glass ceiling

A glass ceiling is a metaphor usually applied to people of marginalized genders, used to represent an invisible barrier that prevents an oppressed demographic from rising beyond a certain level in a hierarchy.

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Hank Greenberg

Henry Benjamin Greenberg (January 1, 1911 – September 4, 1986), nicknamed "Hammerin' Hank", "Hankus Pankus", and "the Hebrew Hammer", was an American professional baseball player and team executive.

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Identification (psychology)

Identification is a psychological process whereby the individual assimilates an aspect, property, or attribute of the other and is transformed wholly or partially by the model that other provides.

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Imperial German influence on Republican Chile

German people, culture, science and institutions have greatly influenced Chile.

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Mentorship

Mentorship is the patronage, influence, guidance, or direction given by a mentor.

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Model

A model is an informative representation of an object, person or system.

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Personal network

A personal network is a set of human contacts known to an individual, with whom that individual would expect to interact at intervals to support a given set of activities.

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Reality television

Reality television is a genre of television programming that documents purportedly unscripted real-life situations, often starring unfamiliar people rather than professional actors.

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Robert K. Merton

Robert King Merton (born Meyer Robert Schkolnick; July 4, 1910 – February 25, 2003) was an American sociologist who is considered a founding father of modern sociology, and a major contributor to the subfield of criminology.

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Role engulfment

In labeling theory, role engulfment refers to how a person's identity becomes based on a role the person assumes, superseding other roles. Role model and role engulfment are role status.

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Self-efficacy

In psychology, self-efficacy is an individual's belief in their capacity to act in the ways necessary to reach specific goals.

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Show business

Show business, sometimes shortened to show biz or showbiz (since 1945), is a vernacular term for all aspects of the entertainment industry.

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Social capital is "the networks of relationships among people who live and work in a particular society, enabling that society to function effectively". Role model and Social capital are social influence.

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Thomas Mellon

Thomas Mellon (February 3, 1813 – February 3, 1908) was a Scots-Irish American businessman, judge, and lawyer who was best known as the founder of Mellon Bank and patriarch of the Mellon family of Pittsburgh.

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In the social sciences, social groups can be categorized based on the various group dynamics that define social organization.

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See also

Robert K. Merton

Role status

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Role_model

Also known as Imitatio prominentis.