01:920:101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Erving Goffman, Impression Management
16 Oct 2018
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Includes every type of interaction, even lack of interaction. These patterns dictate how we tract to new social environments in daily interaction. Social interaction may be trivial, but they make up social order. Many small interactions make up complete fabric of sustained social life. Social life is a stage on which people interact. We all play a particular role in every instance of social interaction. Everyone is both an actor and audience. Roles are socially defined expectations about how one should act with a certain status, social position, or situation. People play different roles throughout the day and their lives. Daily life is a series of social interaction in which we manage the impressions we make of ourselves. People prepare for the presentation of one"s social role. We express ourselves so others get an impression of us as a result. People try to control who is the audience to their social roles.
