SOCL 3101 Chapter : SOCL3101 Oneil 03282016
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Last class period, we began talking about erving goffman"s idea of dramaturgy, and how it often describes social life in terms as a stage. Goffman said that when we are need our audience to believe in the character that we present them. we need them to believe that we are who we say we are, because if they don"t believe, then the. Goffman"s idea that we present a character to other people like an actor on a stage, has led to a lot of criticism of goffman"s work. Critics of goffman say that we have no self"; we are just actors in a play. I had sent out an often-quoted paragraph from goffman"s first major book, the presentation of self in everyday life which is also often misunderstood by people he"s been talking about. He writes: who try to make this claim that goffman says we have no self.
