COMS 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Clifford Geertz, Erving Goffman, Nonverbal Communication
6 May 2016
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Inspired by kenneth burkes model but it concentrated on conscious and deliberate performances in everyday life. How we control the drama in our life. Viewed human behaviour as distinctly dramatic or theatrical. Physical or bodily actions are used performatively to craft and project impressions of individuals and to define the nature of particular situations. Claims life is a theatre, but doesn"t claim that people/actors are conscious of being on stage or of creating performances. Models we rely on to make sense of experience, define situations for ourselves and others. Learn these frames through society, and use them in order to organize the social interactions of our lives. Reflect cultural knowledge, and vary culture from culture. Expectation from society on how these events are about to unfold (ex. Process of managing setting, words, nonverbal communication, and dress in an effort to create or project a particular image to project to other people.
