SOCL 2001 Lecture : Sociology Notes 3
Document Summary
The social construction of reality: ideas and objects gain their meaning through social interaction, seeing a certain carpet in a church and thinking of it only as. Symbolic interaction: micro-level theory, humans react based on shared symbolic meaning, produced by social interaction, filtered through individual interpretation. Dramaturgy (goffman: life = theater, humans = actors, explanation, he argued that everything is a stage; every social setting is a, impression management stage. Exceptions someone"s office or their home; places: impression management says we are constantly working where the person feels comfortable. Using previous data to perform their expected behavior. with this; we always trying to manage others impression of us. We know what to say and how to act around our parents or around our friends: front stage = public, backstage = private, social life is much more complicated than we can imagine, face. Face your reputation: esteem in which an individual is held by others; always saving.
