SLGY 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman
23 Dec 2016
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Slgy 1101 - lecture 5 - social structures. Social scripts: culturally constructed, socially enforced practices that we are all expected to follow when we interact in social situations. Social forms: social arrangements that arise out of interactions often below the cultural radar/below people"s consciousness. Social scripts and social forms restrict the ways people relate to one another in social situations. Community: group of people who interact/communicate, often with each other, share common interests, values, and goals. Individuals identify themselves as members of a community. Statistical categories: different from social communities (ex. male and female are categories, people belonging in the same category may interact with each other on the basis of their membership in the community. Goffman and dramaturgy: the presentation of one"s self in everyday life: social life as a theatrical production (ex. costumes, scripts, roles; doctor, police officer, the things you do, how you choose to present yourself in everyday life.
