The socially defined role expectations as a result of the dominant beliefs and ideology of the time period are what had the most influence on the development of Essie Mae. . Social roles provide individuals interacting within that context, a set of pre-established meanings which specify who does what, when and where. And connected with those societal roles are a set of expectations that the majority of people are expected to follow and meet. The problem is when those pre-established, pre-determined, social roles are dominated by the racist and ignorant beliefs and ideas of a society. Here in lies the issue of the Thomas quote, “If men define situations as real, they are real in their consequences.” The whole notion that people respond not only to the immediate context of a situation, but also respond to the meaning that situation has for them. Coser (1977: pp 520-523) keenly observes: “If people believe in witches, such beliefs have tangible consequences-they may, for example kill those person assumed to be witches. This then is the power the human mind has in transmuting raw sense data into a categorical apparatus. Once a Vietnamese becomes a “gook” or a black a “nigga” or a Jew a “Kike”, that human being has been transmuted through the peculiar alchemy of social definition into a wholly other, who is now a target of prejudice and discrimination of violence and aggression.”

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