Sociology 2271A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Charles Cooley, Erving Goffman, Impression Management
14 Jun 2013
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The looking glass self: mirror mirror on the wall, who is the prettiest of them all? . Identity consists of 3 elements: how actors imagine they appear, how actors believe others judge their appearance. Your own perception: how actors develop feelings of shame or pride, feelings that become an inner guide to behaviour. The social self the cause of social behaviour: family comments on how you look at and how yours doing in school, childhood impacts you. Best known works: presentation of self in everyday life (1959, asylums (1961, stigma (1963, gender advertisements (1976. Life is a stage we are always performing. Life is a drama and we are all actors: we are always acting, there are different characters and roles, they must make it believable. Dramaturgical theory makes us of concepts that parallel those of stage performances: roles, props, scenes, etc: your friends set you up with a blind date what would you do.
