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Erving Goffman was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1982. He is recognized as one of the world's foremost social theorists and much of his work still remains in print. Among his classic books are The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; Interaction Ritual; Stigma; Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity; and Frame Analysis. William B. Helmreich is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and City College. He has written Against All Odds, The Enduring Community, Saving Children, and The Things They Say Behind Your Back all available from Transaction.
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A summary of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, and a brief discussion of its relevance to A level Sociology.
Executive Summary
The best way to understand human action is by seeing people as actors on a ‘social stage’ who actively create an impression of themselves for the benefit of an audience (and, ultimately themselves).
When we act in the social world, we put on a ‘front’ in order to project a certain image of ourselves (call this part of our ‘social identity’ if you like) – we create a front by manipulating the setting in which we perform (e.g. our living room), our appearance (e.g. our clothes) and our manner (our emotional demeanour).
In the social world we are called upon to put on various fronts depending on the social stage on which we find ourselves and the teams of actors with whom we are performing – the work-place or the school are typical examples of social stages which require us to put on a front. On these social stages we take on roles, in relation to other team-members and carefully manage the impressions we give-off in order to ‘fit in’ to society and/ or achieve our own personal goals
Impression management involves projecting an ‘idealised image’ of ourselves, which involves concealing a number of aspects of a performance – such as the effort which goes into putting on a front, and typically hiding any personal profit we will gain from a performance/ interaction.
Unfortunately because audiences are constantly on the look-out for the signs we give off (so that they can know who we are) ‘performers can stop giving expressions, but they cannot stop giving them off’. This means that we must be constantly on our guard to practice ‘expressive control’ when on the social stage. There are plenty of things that can go wrong with our performance which might betray the fact that we are not really the person who our act suggests that we are – we might lose bodily control (slouch), or make mistakes with our clothing (a scruffy appearance) for example.
We generally tend to think of performances as being of one or two types – the sincere and the contrived. Some people sincerely believe in the parts they are playing, they invest their true selves in the impression they give off, this is the typical case. However, other people act out their roles more cynically – they do not believe the parts they are playing are a reflection of their ‘true selves’ but instead only play their part in order to achieve another end.
Thankfully most audience members are tactful and voluntarily stay away from back-stage areas where we prepare for our social roles, and if we ever ‘fall out of character’ they tend to engage in ‘tactful inattention’ in order to save the situation.
From a research methods point of view the significance of Goffman lies in the fact that f we really want to understand people, we would need to engage in participant-observation in order to get back-stage with them, because we only get to see peoples true feelings when they stop performing.
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Among his classic books are The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; Interaction Ritual; Stigma; Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity; and Frame Analysis. William B. Helmreich is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and City College. He has written Against All Odds, The Enduring Community, Saving Children, and The ...
THE PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE ERVING GOFFMAN University of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Centre $9 George Square, Edinburgh S Monograph No. 2 1956. o. Masks are arrested expressions and admirable echoes of feeling, at once faithful, discreet, and superlative. Living
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By Ashley Crossman. Updated on September 06, 2024. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a book published in the U.S. in 1959, by sociologist Erving Goffman. In it, Goffman uses the imagery of theater in order to portray the nuances and significance of face-to-face social interaction. Goffman puts forth a theory of social interaction ...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Erving Goffman. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Sep 29, 2021 - Social Science - 272 pages. A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical ...
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to ...
Books. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Erving Goffman. Penguin Books, Limited, May 5, 2022 - Psychology - 272 pages. One of the defining works of twentieth-century sociology: a revelatory analysis of how we present ourselves to others'The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing ... it is a dramatic effect' How ...
Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was "arguably the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century" (Fine & Manning, 2003, p. 34). This summary will outline one of his earliest works - The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, originally published in 1956. The book was published more widely in 1959 with some minor changes and in ...
Citation. Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Doubleday. Abstract. A classic analysis of the processes by which persons manage their appearance and demanor so as to project an appropriate impression of themselves into social interactions.
Among his classic books are The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life; Interaction Ritual; Stigma; Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity; and Frame Analysis. William B. Helmreich is a professor of sociology at the CUNY Graduate Center and City College. He has written Against All Odds, The Enduring Community, Saving Children, and The ...
The presentation of self in everyday life by Goffman, Erving. Publication date 1959 Topics Self-presentation, Social role, Role, Self Concept, Social Behavior, Rollen (sociale wetenschappen), Zelf, Rôle social, Vie quotidienne, Moi (Psychologie) Publisher Garden City, N.Y., Doubleday
About The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others.
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The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life - A Summary. A summary of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, and a brief discussion of its relevance to A level Sociology. Executive Summary. The best way to understand human action is by seeing people as actors on a 'social stage' who actively create an ...
Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, published in 1959, provides a detailed description and analysis of process and meaning in mundane interaction.Goffman, as a product of the Chicago School, writes from a symbolic interactionist perspective, emphasizing a qualitative analysis of the component parts of the interactive process.
2 THE PRESENTATION OF SELF activity. Many crucial facts lie beyond the time and place of interaction or lie concealed within it. For example, the "true or "real" attitudes, beliefs, and emotions of the in- dividual cant be ascertained only indirectly, through his avowals or through what appears to be involuntary ex-
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definition and construction of the public self during social interaction. Goffman's approach to this topic is commonly de-scribed as dramaturgical-that is, Goffman views the self, social interaction, and life as dramatic or theatri-cal productions. Individuals are social actors who play different parts in the varied scenes of social life. Every
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