Chapter 2 BACKGROUND LITERAURE 2.1 The concept of stigmatization The term stigma was identified in the work of Erving Goffman (1963) Stigma: Notes on the Management for Spoiled identity. Goffman (1963) states that stigma is a reflection of society’s attitude in relation to mental illness that is deeply discrediting leaving the individual in a point of social humiliation. It continues to make reflection upon the discrepancy between the individual’s virtual society identity‚ in reference to the characteristics
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Erving Goffman developed a metaphor of theater to explain the social interaction with different forms of behavior on front and back stages. Front stage is the area of social interaction visible to the audience‚ and back stage is the social interaction not visible to the audience. Front stage is a behavior that we do when other people are watching or are aware of us. Being in this front stage behavior‚ we focus on how others view us and what they expect from us‚ which can drive the behavior all together
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Question 4 Outline and discuss Erving Goffman’s concept of dramaturgy “All the world’s a stage‚ and all the men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances‚ and one man in his time plays many parts‚ his acts being seven ages.” This familiar exert from Shakespeare’s AsYou Like It‚ captures the essence of dramaturgy‚ a model of society which depicts social interactions as those of actors in a theatrical presentation before an audience in a given setting(Ferrante 2011).Goffman’s
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Erving Goffman The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life The Main Argument‚ and the Starting Assumption As in Berger & Luckmann’s Social Construction of Reality‚ this work is an attempt at analyzing our daily life world from the perspective that all of our actions we perform - and the interpretations and meanings we give to these actions - are fundamentally social in nature. In carrying out this analysis‚ therefore‚ the perspective Goffman adopts is that of the analogy of the everyday life
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Erving Goffman‚ a prominent Canadian-American sociologist‚ is considered one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He has coined and created numerous terms and concepts that have had a great influence on the discipline of sociology and what it has become today. He focus was on the actual social environment and physical interaction of individuals that shapes their views of self. Many of his concepts were created out of his own research and observations that he would make well
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Dramaturgical Analysis Erving Goffman studied how people socially interacted with each other‚ and he introduced dramaturgical analysis‚ which is a study of social interaction in terms of theatrical performance. (1959‚ p.162) As Goffman mentions‚ we are an actor performing in a play. He introduced certain ideas‚ some of which I am going to use to my observations that I did at the enrollment center. The ideas that I am going to use are: presentation of self‚ embarrassment‚ and front region and back
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Sociologist Erving Goffman’s term “dramaturgy” is one used to describe everyday life with interactions with others‚ and how our lives compare to a theatrical performance. Most individuals put on a performance in front of others and never notice. When we find‚ ourselves delivering a performance to others this is known as “frontstage”. While the time we spend alone‚ relaxed‚ and honest is called “backstage. There even times that the backstage is when we prepare for those frontstage performances to
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Response Paper : Erving Goffman “Stigma and Social Identitiy” In this article Goffman tell us about the relationship between stigma and social identity. Goffman has examined three types of stigma in this study. It is badily deformities‚ such as blind‚ six fingered‚ cross-eyed. They may be inborn or may be at a later date ( physical ). Other stigma is “tribal” ( social ). It is generalization made by society. Then‚ it is personal character‚ such as dependence‚ perversion. According
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life By: Erving Goffman What Goffman writes about is how an individual reacts when they come into the presence of others. He tries to come up with a type of human model that represents how individuals try to perceive others with knowledge that was previously obtained. According to Goffman‚ information about the individual helps to setup the situation‚ which in turn helps others to predict what the individual might expect of them or vice versa. If analyzed
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Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Goffman dissects the meaning and practice of direct interaction‚ using “dramaturgical” tools and claims that “The entire world is a stage‚ and we but merely players". Introduction Goffman lays out the basic elements of the argument. In micro-interactions‚ every person sends two signals: those they "give" and those they "give off" "The expressiveness of the individual appears to involve two radically different kinds of sign activity: the
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