Sociology 2259 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Erving Goffman
6 Jan 2015
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Information control: related to the concepts of discreditable and discredited , related to the concepts of virtual and actual identity. Intimate relationships: those who are knowing - help the stigmatized to manage their social situations. Is related to biography and how we know ourselves . In some ways we can carefully construct what is put out there : the notion of personal identity has a very structured, routine, standardizing role in social organization, its because how we are documented in life. It creates a breach between two worlds and is related to biography. Double life: concealing discreditable facts , unapparent facts that are incompatible with present claims, this is what one tries to conceal when passing . Double double life: when people think you are what you are and don"t realize that there is an identity in need of protection , moving in two circles, man has a family but is gay and hides it, dexter.
