SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Impression Management, Erving Goffman, Social Forces

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOC 2109
• Professor: Sam Alvaro

Document Summary

The adoption of role and social identities: self-schemas are formed in part by adopting identities. Feb 2 class 8: the identities available to us depend on whether the culture is individualist (america) or collectivist (family first like japan) Intrinsic gratifications derived from performing the identity: the amount of self-esteem staked on enacting the identity well. Salience hierarchy: the salience hierarchy helps us construct a unified sense of self from our multiple identities, the hierarchy influences consistency by: Providing a basis to choose which situations we enter and which we avoid. Influencing the consistency of behavior across different situations. Self-verification strategies: behaviors that lead to self-confirming feedback from others: Engage in selective interaction; we choose as friends, roommates, and intimates people who share our view of self. Display identity cues that elicit identity-confirming behavior from others. We behave in ways that enhance our identity claims, especially when those claims are challenged.