brief paper based on Goffman’s book
Constitute a review of the book’s major arguments and an application of Goffman’s theory on a contemporary situation, event, or experience.
Include and highlight these main arguments/theories:
– impression management:
-Expressions given and expressions given off
– Unmeant gestures, scenes, faux pas
– Dramaturgical loyalty, dramaturgical discipline,
dramaturgical
dramaturgical
circumspection
– Tactful act
– The Self as a performer
– Front stage/Back stage
– Back and front regions/stages
– regionalization
– Decorum, the outside
– Audience segregation
could also disagree and criticize the theory if you wish. Intellectual creativity is very much welcome!
Guidelines:
write these two parts interwoven or separately.
Work like a microsociologist and look at the particular scenes of the microworld to understand the social whole.
paper should mimic microsociologists’ work by taking small social settings or interactions between humans on a conversational level and slicing them down and examining the parts.
Please use the standard format: double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12-point font with 1-inch margins.