SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Social Reality, Impression Management, Erving Goffman

• School: York University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: SOCI 2040
• Professor: Fuyuki Kurasawa

Document Summary

Keywords for next week goffman and dramaturgy: dramaturgy and dramaturgical elements, stage: frontstage and backstage. Introduction: everyday life, how does social reality become taken for granted, habitualization b, objectivation. The goal of phenomenology is how we understand the world by experiencing it. How does social reality become taken for granted: habitualization (individual) Process of making something habitual: repeated actions creating a predetermined pattern of conduct (routine) Process of creating a social institution: repetition of a pattern of social interaction by actors over time: objectivation. Process of making social reality appear objective (seems to pre-exist us and exist independently of human actions and beliefs), due to habitualization and institutionalization.