SOCI 210 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Financial Independence, Erving Goffman, Structural Functionalism
6 Nov 2018
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Individuals are about to make a change in life and are practicing to get into that role. Adapting to the new behaviours of this new role. Switching from norms in the prison to norms outside the prison. Life stages are social constructions that vary across time and place. The behaviours, beliefs, and norms performed in social settings. Social life is like a stage and individuals are actors on it, performing roles for others. We slip into different roles at different times/life-stages. There is a scope for change, not fixed. Roles we choose to play and the roles we are allowed to play. Self is a product of dramatic interaction between and actor and an audience. Hopes the presentation will be strong enough for the audience to accept. The initial definition of the situation by the individual projects a plan --- pg 59. Actions deployed to maintain a person"s face to.
