SOC483Y1 Lecture Notes - Frame Analysis, Second Cup, Dramatization
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Wrote many books on different arenas of face to face interaction. General interest: studied interaction in small groups; dramaturgical approach because he uses the analogies of plays/stage. We all formulate identities through routine actions and gestures. Impression management strategies: we are always managing the roles that we present: reserve certain roles for certain people and situation. We are not lying or making up roles, the different roles we take just depend on the context of what is appropriate. You are still you at the bar, and in the role you take at school. You adjust the impression you give of yourself depending on audience. James/schutz: there are different parts of ourselves and in different setting we stress these different parts depending on situation/context. Give: the impression we want to give, and we explicitly try to do that. Front stage: where the performance happens critiqued that he says people are always acting.
