What Is the Role Hierarchy?

The role structure refers to the sum of all role relationships that an individual is associated with due to multiple social statuses. A person often occupies a variety of different social positions in social life, and therefore assumes multiple roles, that is, multiple roles in one. Individuals occupy complex and numerous social relationship positions, thus forming different role relationships and structures, reflecting the main social identities and statuses of individuals and influencing and deriving roles from other roles into central roles. Personal life circumstances affect the change of role structure. With the change of an individual's life, some of the original roles may be lost, and at the same time continue to assume new roles. Therefore, the role structure is constantly changing. ^[1]