📚 Social Role

Books with social role on their catalogue record, first published between 1952 and 2014, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject social role in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 660 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	The presentation of self in everyday life	Erving Goffman	1952	28
	Being mentally ill	Thomas J. Scheff	1966	14
	Role Transitions in Organizational Life	Blake Ashforth	2000	8
	Leadership and Change in Human Services	David Race	2003	7
	Personnage et la personne	Paul Tournier	1957	6
	Status integration and suicide	Jack P. Gibbs	1964	6
	Dressierte Mann	Esther Vilar	1972	6
	Roles in interpretation	Judy E. Yordon	1982	6
	Stigma and Group Inequality	Shana Levin	2005	6
	Persona	Helen Harris Perlman	1968	5
	Occupational Therapy in Forensic Psychiatry	Victoria P. Schindler	2014	5
	Patterns of social functioning in families with marital and parent-child problems	Gerson David	1967	4
	Deviance and conformity	Stuart Hunter Palmer	1970	4
	Personality in social theory	Patricke Johns Heine	1971	4
	The manipulated man	Esther Vilar	1972	4
	Once my child, now my friend	Elinor Lenz	1981	4
	Roles	Michael Banton	1965	3
	Role theory	Bruce J. Biddle	1966	3
	Der Begriff der sozialen Rolle als Element der soziologischen Theorie	Heinrich Popitz	1967	3
	Indische Frauen zwischen Patriarchat und Chancengleichheit	Maria Mies	1973	3
	Die gegenwärtige Lage der soziologischen Rollentheorie	Hans Joas	1973	3
	People in places	Arnold Birenbaum	1973	3
	Presentation of Self	Erving Goffman	1974	3
	Changing methods	Sandra D. Burt	1995	3
	Social Representations and the Development of Knowledge	Gerard Duveen	2005	3
	Navigating multiple identities	Ruthellen Josselson	2012	3
	Zur Ontologie der sozialen Rolle	Lothar Philipps	1963	2
	Social relations and social roles	Florian Znaniecki	1965	2
	Rolle und Macht	Dieter Claessens	1968	2
	Die gesellschaftlichen Leiden und das Leiden an der Gesellschaft	Hans Peter Dreitzel	1968	2

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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