SOCI 4670 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Erving Goffman, Antiscience, Role Theory
9 Oct 2018
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Goffman, positivism and the self as-performer (actor, player) and the self-as-performed (character, role). A fundamental feature of goffman"s dramaturgical model is the distinction between the self- The enduring self is an illusion of person-perception, a fiction of common-sense and psychology, propped up by relatively stable social arrangements and relations to which common-sense tends to be blind. Disturb or disrupt this established pattern, introduce discontinuity into it, displace the. Goffman commits himself to a view of the production of social behaviour from the standpoint. This self itself does not derive from its possessor, but from the whole scene of his action, of the individuals whose behaviour it is. being generated by that attribute of local events which renders them interpretable by witnesses. A correctly staged and performed scene leads the audience to impute a self to a performed character, but this imputation is a product of a scene that comes off, and not a cause of it.
