SOCIOL 4HH3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 22: Impression Management, Linkedin, Erving Goffman
24 Apr 2020
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We are all just actor trying to control and manage our public image: we act based on how other might see us. Linkedin has become one of the most popular sns particularly in the professional world: use it to advance their careers, prompts far less impression management research. Indicates inds are social actors have the ability to choose a stage and props as well as a consume (or front) to put before an audience: adapt to different situations. Inds est their identity by putting up a front defined as the part of the inds performance which functions in a general fashion to define the situation for observers. Impression management: process by which a person (actor) tries to influence perceptions of him/her help by the recipient (audience) of a situation (stage: how inds control how others think of them and how they think of themselves.
