SOC 001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Erving Goffman

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Sociology (SOC)
• Course: SOC 001
• Professor: jones

Document Summary

Milgram"s experiment has been replicated in recent years. The experiments found that women are more likely to shock on command. Conformity: we conform to different ideals based on the situation we are in. Order: there is a powerful pressure to follow the orders society dictates to us. Individuality: despite all of the conforming we do maintain individual identities. Duneier humanity is the struggle for a positive sense of self. Double binds: when you are asked to conform to two different ideas. Conformity can be demanded by an experiment, or society. Oops a common expression used as a way to claim guilt. Acknowledging each other in conversations and taking turns when talking. Strategic silences, for example when prompting someone. Pamela fishman studies the interaction shitwork the constant affirming performed primarily by women. People are very slow to say no, but yeses come right away. Erving goffman, "the presentation of self in everyday life"