SOC388H1 Lecture Notes - Impression Management, Schizophrenia, Erving Goffman
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The midterm is right after the reading week. We will have some time to have you ask questions, but we won"t do review. You are welcome to come to prof"s office hour. Important figure in sociology who was born in canada. He looks at dynamics of sociological factors that shape interactions. Sociologists get data sets, fieldwork, census data, etc. this is the most standard way of working with sociology. He combined many different sources and data (observation, conversation with people, jokes he heard, fiction writing, etc. ) and used these things to develop theory. Using these methods and different kinds of data and came up with. Impression management: managing our impression of who we are ourselves, we are all hypocrites. Your job must be another stage, your family, friends, gym you are managing different impressions in them all. Just like in the theatre in life, it is not all the stage. Front stage impressing ourselves in face-to-face interactions.
