SOC100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erving Goffman, Ascribed Status, Symbolic Interactionism
13 Mar 2018
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Social actor: person with shared frame of reference (common beliefs, values, language, practices) with others. Status: culturally defined social position, ascribed status, achieved status, master status. Social role: behavior of a person with a particular social status. Role set: all of the roles attached to a single status. Role strain: tension among the various roles attached to a status, or between the roles attached to different statuses. Erving goffman was influential in his work on the self in everyday social interactions. Goffman focuses on how we interact; the patterns that guide our actions, and the way that we attempt to manage ours as (cid:449)ell as othe(cid:396)s" pe(cid:396)(cid:272)eptio(cid:374)s of us. Goffman spent a great deal of time watching others interact, and found that our actions are far less spontaneous and far more scripted that we often believe. A proponent of symbolic- interactionism and dramaturgy. Most famous work the presentation of the self in everyday life.
