SOCI-333 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Erving Goffman
17 Sep 2019
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Idealization and failed performance: cynical and sincere performance, the personal front consists of manner and appearance. It is a conventional perspective of a performer, things on or about one"s person. Hairstyles, clothing and tattoos say something about where a person is in the social world. Appearance isn"t a psychological understanding of appearance but tell us little about what is going on inside of us. Appearance is a signalling system where we communicate to others how we would like to be taken in a scene. Where motive comes from is irrelevant to goffman and whether there is an "inside" as psychologists would say. Less about where the performance originates from, but it is part of the scene. Performances are guided by our efforts to align ourselves with social statuses: manner. Manner refers to the stimuli which function at the time to warn us of the interaction role the performer will expect to play in the oncoming situation.
