SOCI 2040 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Impression Management, Erving Goffman, Social Reality
21 Apr 2015
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Keywords for next week: goffman and dramaturgy: dramaturgy and dramaturgical elements, stage: front stage and back stage. The see the way actors experience things in the world. To show how we understand the world by experiencing it. What we call direct experience of something is the main way get to know something and getting to think of it. By direct experience is the way we fully understand the world: everyday life i. Definition: realm of ordinary activity and everyday experiences, source of knowledge of the social world ii. iii. iv. How we come to understand the social world in everyday life. We communicate with other we interact with them and by the virtue of doing that we create what berger and luckman explaining what everyday life is. A part of interaction is language: shared with others: common understandings and meanings. It relies on what we called common understanding and meaing.
