SOC 101 : Sociology 101 Test 2 Notes
15 Mar 2019
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Intimacy a close relationship characterized by vulnerability: facilitates the most intense levels of conflict, when they know your vulnerabilities, they can push your buttons. , ex. Institution does not work for the common good of everyone in society. Erving goffman: wrote the book the presentation of self in everyday life , all the world is a stage, the men and women simply players upon it. william. Definition: application of the terms and concepts of the theatre to the analysis of day-to-day life. It"s not that day-to-day life is like action in the theater; it"s that the theater"s contents and dynamics are modeled after day-to-day life. Goffman: each of us is engaged (constantly) in a process called impression management. Impression management attempting to foster favorable impressions of one"s self in the minds of others with whom one interacts. Favorable impression - a notion consistent with the outcome(s) the actor wishes to accomplish or achieve.
