COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Judith Butler, Performativity, Move

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Communications Studies
• Course: COMS 201
• Professor: Dawn Johnson

Document Summary

Erving goffman"s dramaturgical model of communication emphasizes a more conscious or deliberate performances of daily. The theory we craft other people"s impression on us on a daily basis. Dramaturgical model: likens ordinary social interaction to theatrical performance, focusing on controlling the drama. Controlling the drama of our daily lives. Reign in other people"s impression of us. Frames: models we rely on to make sense of experience. > we learn these models through interaction with society; generalized other. Then we use them to organize our social interactions. >in a wedding, for example, we know the sequence of events, etc. We understand within our cultural model what a wedding would include a ceremony, exchanging of vows, two people legally joined, etc. >the frame of a first date: awkward introduction, simple conversation. >we have these frames of how things should go in our daily lives.