A woman arrives at a semi-formal ‘tea party’ dressed as for ‘gardening’?

Social roles are the identities people adopt to be recognized as members of a ‘social group’, or as an individual within some specific ‘descriptor’ of a social situation. Identities: a collective of duties, expectations, norms, attitudes, and behaviors that a person fulfills. With each ‘social’ role you accept, your behavior changes, or modifies, to fit the expectations both you, and others, have of that ‘role identity’.
Depending on the ‘society’, these abstract identities can alter subtly or extensively. Even within societies, the various cultural ‘strata’ can alter expectations, both inside and outside these conceptional ‘layers’.
As to interest in different ‘types’, any list of separation is seemingly endless in that virtually everything you can do, or ‘be’, in a public or group setting is attached to some ideal set of ‘expectations’.
For example: A ‘younger’ boy arrives at ‘basketball’ practice dressed and prepared to play ‘football’?
A woman arrives at a semi-formal ‘tea party’ dressed as for ‘gardening’?
One’s attitude and actions will alter when one’s identity within any organization alters.
As a team member’s identity alters, both attitude and performance expectations also alter. Consider the expectations of a ‘basketball’ greenhorn ‘rookie’ (bench warmer) to the ‘substitute’ player during a game, to that of a ‘starter’, to that of ‘the star and leader’.
It is no wonder that people can become confused, even ‘hapless’, when visiting another culture.
Americans are frequently viewed as ‘arrogant’ simply by their refusal to acknowledge the ‘standards’ of any other ‘social fabric’, a metaphor for how well the community members interact among themselve
Social roles are in play all around us, all day, everyday. One of my favorite examples of social roles is a classroom. If you take a close look at the dynamics that play out in a classroom, you can find a lot of different wonderful examples of social roles.
In a classroom environment, you have the teacher who plays the part of the leader. The teacher has almost complete control of the social dynamics in the room. Especially with younger students, sometimes even when the teacher does something wrong, students will follow along. The teacher, no matter how disliked, leads the room.
As for students, each and every one plays a different role in the classroom and the would take much too long for me to go into in detail but that's the basics of it!