SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Frame Analysis
19 Dec 2020
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He was looking at the micro aspects of everyday life. He tried to set out the basic frameworks of understanding available in our society for making sense of events. Goffman saw frames as a schemata of interpretation more specifically frames are principles of organization that define our experiences. They are assumptions about what we are seeing in the social world. First frames focus attention on our surroundings by highlighting what is relevant or irrelevant. What is relevant is seen as being frame, and what is irrelevant is seen out of frame. Second frames link relevant elements so that a particular story" is told, butt that story is an interpretation. Those things that fit a stereotype come to the racist mind, that. Application to everyday life presents an overall picture of that group of people: if a lady were to shop lift she could be seen through a criminal frame, and be considered a shoplifter.
