SOC 603 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Impression Management, Hegemonic Masculinity, Telling Stories
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She takes her work a step further, by focusing on how we monitor our emotions as part of our impression management. She focuses, all actions seems like a passive conformity to social convention. We are not only actively trying to conform but we are doing it inwardly as well. For gothman its how we present ourselves=our outward appearance. But for hothchile it"s the moments before we present ourselves to other people. Are we just engaging in behaviors designed to further our own interests. We are not just about the behavioral fa ade, we cannot assume a uniform faciclity when it comes to feeling. Gothman is saying whenever we engage in some type of behavior we do it so we can. In deep acting the feeling is induced or it is suppressed. Evoking or shaping as well as suppressing ones feeling in oneself. We engage in emotion work emotion work has two types.
