SOC 2109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Erving Goffman, Impression Management, Social Forces
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Self-schemas are formed in part by adopting identities: the identities available to us depend on whether the culture is individualist or collectivists. Factors in the importance of a role identity: the resources we have invested in constructing the identity (time, effort and money expended, the extrinsic rewards that enacting the identity has brought, you hosting the next party. Intrinsic gratifications derived from performing the identity: how you feel about it, the amount of self esteem staked on enacting the identity well. 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 behaviour across different situations. Self-discrepancy theory: the types of types of discrepancy produce two different emotional states, someone who has an actual:ideal discrepancy ill experience dejection, sadness or depression, someone who perceives an actualt:ought discrepancy will experience fear, tension or restlessness.