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• Make a short list of some of your social statuses, and list the social roles that are associated with them. Are there any areas where the social roles for one status conflict with the social roles for another status? Explain how you deal with these conflicts.
• Ideally, what kinds of social roles would you like to have others expect of you, and how are these different from the social roles that others expect of you now? What might you be able to do, if anything, to be able to change others' expectations of your social roles?

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• Describe some specific instances in which you have used reference groups to evaluate your behavior. How did your behavior change as a result of this evaluation?
• Think about some of the in-groups and out-groups in your life. Has an in-group ever become an out-group, or vice versa? Describe the processes through which this occurred.

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• Do you agree with sociologists that it is important to differentiate between primary and secondary groups? Why or why not? What are some alternative ways that we might differentiate among the groups in our lives?
• One defining characteristic of a group is that its members interact with one another on a regular basis. Why is this so? What is the difference between a set of people with similar norms, values, and expectations who do not interact regularly and a group?