SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Erving Goffman, Social Distance, Class Discrimination

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

A popular professor, always filled up lecture hall. Was rich b/c dad ran a chocolate factory. Wrote essays on social distance b/w social classes (economic segregation) Distance between individuals or groups of individual in spaces of social life (microsociology) How you imagine you appear to others. How you imagine these other judge your appearance. Wrote "presentation of self in everyday life" Research that utilizes the methodology of life, taking place on a stage with a front stage for public display, and a back stage for personal encounters. Not saying that we are fake/ or false, but we have true roles, and false roles. Term used to described the tactics people employ when presenting themselves publicly. Actors in social situations attempt to act in such a way as to attempt to avoid being embarrassed or embarrassing others. Actors seldom act / accept shame passively, but they would rather try and manage it by avoiding.