SOCI 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Harold Garfinkel, Proxemics, Impression Management
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Chapter 5: social interactions and everyday life in the age of the internet. Impression management- preparing for the presentation of one"s social role. Audience segregation: just as people try to manage their performance in social interaction, they try to control who is in their audience, they practice audience segregation. Civil inattention: the process whereby individuals in the same physicalsetting glance at each other and quickly look away to indicate awareness of each other but not intrusiveness. Nonverbal communication: communication between individuals based on facial expression or bodily gesture rather than on language, faces, gestures, and emotion. Response cries: goffman, 1981, seemingly involuntary exclamations individuals make when, for example, they are taken by suprise, drop something inadvertently, or want to express pleasure. Erving goffman: social interaction- the process by hwich we act and react to those around us, agency- the ability to think, act, and make choices independently.
