SOC 3750 Lecture 2: SOC3750 - September 15, 2015
3 Oct 2015
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Understanding drama of policing (dramaturgy - studies of the way in which we present ourselves in a metaphor of the stage) Managed and negotiated by people in the ways they publicly behave. World is a stage and we are merely players . In private we can act however we want, but we do have an interest in presenting ourselves. Goffman (presentations of self in everyday life, 1959) Spoiled identities and the way people go about hiding those spoiled identities (ex. stuttering to other people. Will depend on the type of identity we want to present and those we want to present to and using techniques to x this or hide this as goffman would note) Ex. being an ex-con and hiding that when you leave prison. What you present to the audience, what everybody sees. Policing: public identity and how the police present themselves to the public.
