Role Expectancy-Making

The Relevance of Role Expectancy and Role Circularity to Deviancy-Making and Deviancy-Unmaking The roles that people in society can hold are either positive or negative. We can assume from this that people who hold positive roles are considered valued and people who hold negative roles are considered devalued and un-useable to society as a whole. There are many factors that go into making positive and negative roles in society, such as the place someone lives, their image, or even their personality (Wolfensberger, 2013, p. 135.) SRV calls for devalued people who hold negative roles to receive valued social roles; Wolfensberger believes that if a person can attain a valued role, their overall expectancy and label as a devalued person can fade
With the help of the developmental model, devalued people with low personal competencies have a good chance of being able to enhance themselves. The developmental model focuses on a couple of core areas to help the devalued improve their competencies. One of the main assumptions that lies within the basis of the developmental model is the idea that everyone can improve themselves. Another main assumption is that there are countless ways of helping people achieve their full worth (Wolfensberger, 2013, p. 137-138.) Two areas that are important to figure out to help the developmental model perform its duties are the content and process. The content of the developmental model aims to find exactly what the goal the person is trying to attain. The process then is how the person can go about achieving their goal. For this to be able to happen, it is important to understand that each person has different goals that they wish to attain. All of this shows that Wolfensberger believed that everyone should hold valued roles and live a good life no matter how devalued a person
Minority children in the western world have been devalued for many different reasons throughout history. More recently, much to the credit of the developmental model and its primary foundation, the developmental characteristics of minority children are being identified as positive and different from those of adults. The developmental model has helped us understand that children develop different from adults and has helped society change its views of child development (Coll et al., 1996, p. 1893.) Throughout history, people did not fully understand how children developed at different rates as adults. When people identified the differences, they deemed them not normal and unhealthy. The developmental model has helped change the views about this by helping people realize that the developmental characteristics for each child are different and positive. The developmental model also has helped people realize the way that people attain what they need to be valued is different on a person by person