SOCI 275 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Social Exchange Theory, Social Cognition, Shared Experience

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 275
• Professor: Clara Khudaverdian

Document Summary

Dramaturgical theory: highlights the role of interaction in shaping human behavior, not concerned with people"s thoughts/interpretation, concerned with how people manipulate action and appearance. Impression management : manage how people will look at them and how they will react o. Impression management depends on how sensitive we see each other as social objects: dramaturgical theory analogy, social life in terms of a theatre. Audience observe behavior: people"s selves = dramatic effects, established, not reflected in interaction (through stage work, erving goffman"s 5 dramaturgical principles, 1. People engage in performances to present themselves to others: 2. People work in teams to express characteristics of a social situation: 3. People distinguish between different types of social spaces to perform. Goffman connects consciousness of the self and social behavior. It is in conversations that we rank, classify and categorize each other: people have convinced themselves that we share meanings and understandings, when in reality we do not.