SOC 101 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: George Herbert Mead, Impression Management, Erving Goffman

• School: Syracuse University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 101
• Professor: Jennifer Flad

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Irter to look away and then, perhaps, quickly glance again a the other person. As in the case of animals, the gestures of boxers and those who irt are instantaneous and involve few, if any, conscious thought processes. Your generalized other in a baseball game is different from your generalized other in a classroom. In the back stage people feel free to express themselves in ways that are suppressed in the front. Example: when summer camp is over, counselors are often friended by their former campers on facebook. In order to allow the campers to stay in contact with them through facebook, counselors might post limited, carefully edited pro les to special facebook pages. These are, in effect, the counselors" front stages for former campers. They also learn the consequences, or sanctions, for deviating from these expectations: some people socialize their children without rigid adherence to traditional binary gender roles, rejecting the ideas that boys and girls are completely different.