SOSA 1050Y Lecture 3: Dramaturgical Perspectives on Everyday Life

• School: Dalhousie University
• Department: Soc & Social Anthropology
• Course: SOSA 1050Y
• Professor: Laura Eramian

Document Summary

Helps us to understand our own everyday life, the patterns and connection microsociology: the study of face-to-face interactions. Micro sociologists believe that it is incredibly important to look at everyday life and to study ordinary people. The study of what the world looks like to people and the ways they deal with speci c problems. The study is comprising the detailed analysis of what people do, say and are thinking while in the ow of their ordinary lives. They think that the big structures are a product of these small face-to-face interactions. We have a problem of understanding that in social order, people are not just passive rule followers. People tend to act the way we expected to in the role that they have. It is not solely because of rules that we are orderly because we still have the ability to maneuver within our rules. Order in everyday life is an accomplishment of participants.