SOCI 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Domestic Violence, Old Age, Rotten Apples
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Erving goffman micro-sociologist: you and i behaving in certain ways with one another - gives rise to social structures, have a self, personality - act differently in different environments. At every step of the way, presenting self. Do it all the time: even when you are by yourself, you are engaged in presentation of self, presentation of self directly related to audience, the self is a product of society. How do we try to de ne and control a situation: only individuals of a particular kind are likely to be found in a certain social setting. Carrying society around with us: when going on rst date, asked around and got information about it. Seen tv shows - can pick up cues of what a rst date should involve: gives - impression deliberately/consciously give off, gives off - indirect cue. Many crucial facts lie beyond time/place of interaction/lie concealed within it. Real beliefs/attitudes of individual can be ascertained indirectly.
