CRM 2306 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Ascribed Status, Impression Management, Erving Goffman

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 2306
• Professor: Kate Fletcher

Document Summary

If someone falls under these 3 categories, they are a stigmatized individual and end up being cast into roles in social interactions that make it extremely hard for them to engage in impression management. Impression management: modifying the way people look at you by trying to use the impressions of others as a mirror to yourself. Hard to get away from the negative impression that people already have of you: social interactions are effected from a whole person to someone who is then tainted, being see as something else. E(cid:373)(cid:271)ra(cid:272)i(cid:374)g the (cid:862)ne(cid:449) you(cid:863: psychological defense against negative labeling, atte(cid:373)pt to re(cid:272)ast o(cid:374)e"s self-identity = embrace the deviant identity, the(cid:455) (cid:862)are(cid:863), therefore the(cid:455) (cid:862)do(cid:863) Quasi-inmates: (cid:862)legall(cid:455) free a(cid:374)d palpa(cid:271)l(cid:455) (cid:271)ou(cid:374)d(cid:863, there is still constraints, tu(cid:271)e is(cid:374)"t part of the priso(cid:374) yet it still has rules in it, liminal identity (vistors id) as a quasi-inmate, being on a threshold.