CRIM 2650 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Impression Management, Degeneration Theory, Erving Goffman

• School: York University
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRIM 2650
• Professor: Anita Lam

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Second theme: sociological factors: socio-economic position (day"s social factors) Third theme: punishment: the hunt for day (publicized) Social contract theory vs conflict theorists (society is characterized by social, economic, and political differences, as opposed to equality) ^-social process theory that analyzes the social consequences of labelling someone as deviant; it considers our societal reactions to deviance. The starting premise is not why these individuals engaged in criminal behaviour, but rather the effects of a criminal label being applied to a criminal individual or group. He devised the concept of self-presentation and impression management: self-presentation: refer to the attempts that we engage in to present who we are, or who. These ideas about self-presentation and impression management are tied to goffman"s dramaturgical model of social interaction. He uses theatre as a metaphor for social life: we act on the stage that is life.