CMS 314L Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Facial Expression, Erving Goffman
24 Oct 2017
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People learn to slant their presentation of themselves to create a certain appearance and satisfy an audience/group of people. Display a series of masks to others to control how we appear, give off best impression. Nonverbal things they do, expressions they give off (presumably unintentionally) Symmetry audience believes the verbal communication/mask of person. Asymmetry imbalance in the relationship b/t person and audience, audience picks up o(cid:374) pe(cid:396)so(cid:374)"s (cid:374)o(cid:374)(cid:448)e(cid:396)(cid:271)al (cid:272)ues (cid:894)e(cid:454)p(cid:396)essio(cid:374)s(cid:895), (cid:395)uestio(cid:374)s (cid:448)alidit(cid:455) of thei(cid:396) (cid:373)ask. Infinite cycle of concealment, discovery, false revelation, and rediscovery. Elements of human interaction are dependent upon time, place, and audience. We play a range of different parts determined by the situations we are in. We adapt who we are depending on who we are interacting with. Burke believed life was theatre, goffman viewed theatre as a metaphor. Facework to maintain a proper image of the self to continue social interaction.
