What is Dramaturgy? How does this apply to the front stage‚ back stage‚ and role distancing noted in Brym and Lie? First developed by Erving Goffman‚ dramaturgical analysis is a cynical method for sociologists to analyze all social interactions. Dramaturgy is used to try and explain why we do what we do by comparing us to actors in a theatrical presentation‚ stating that we only do what we do in order to get the best possible reaction from the audience‚ hoping that they view us in a favourable
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21(1). doi: 10.1023/A:1005455600571 Göle‚ N Göle‚ N. (2008‚ February 21). The Immanent Frame. A Headscarf Affair‚ a Women’s Affair? «. Retrieved May 15‚ 2012‚ from http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2008/02/21/a-headscarf-affair-a-womens-affair/ Goffman‚ E Goffman‚ E. (1999). Presentation of self in everyday life. [S.l.]: Peter Smith Pub. Koonz‚ C. (2009‚ March 12). The Muslim Headscarf in Europe: Veiled Threat or Religious Freedom? YouTube. Retrieved May 14‚ 2012‚ from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOF1WkoJk5M
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In order to be accepted‚ we try to maintain the same harmonious balance in the situation. According to Goffman working consensus is a “Real agreement… avoiding an open conflict of the definition of situation” (Cahill‚Sandstorm‚ Froyum 2014:222). In other words‚ what claim will be acceptable in a situation. Power comes into play from the lecture slides‚ Goffman argues‚ “We make a moral demand that we are valued and treated “appropriately.” Also‚ the definition of situation reveals
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Compare and contrast Buchanan and Monderman’s approaches to the production of social order in public spaces. Public spaces are places which we have to share with others and where apply shared sets of values or expectations about how people should behave. Social order is very important in social life. Order is part of the way people practice their social existence. It is about how individuals fit together with others and with things around them. Ordering is all the time practised by people and
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In “Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life‚”Goffman establishes‚ dramaturgy‚ a principle that demonstrates the contrived nature of all human social interaction. Employing Shakespeare’s metaphor of “all life is a stage‚” Goffman expands the metaphor arguing that humans actively decide how to behave to gain acceptance into society‚ which includes acceptance of the forces that diminish individuality. Unlike puppetry or other forms of manipulation‚ individuals confine their potential‚ succumbing to
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In 1990‚ Judith Buttler wrote “Gender Trouble” which explored how gender and sexuality standarized in the construction of social theories. While inspired by Foucault‚ Lacan‚ Freud and Simon de Beauvior about sexuality‚ Buttler constructed their theories. Buttler use “the vocabularies of movement” as strategy to construct that is very uniqueness and became the burden of human manifestation‚ i.e. gender‚ sexes‚ and body. The social phenomenon develop too fast‚ while “the vocabularies of movement” are
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passage from his book Discipline and Punish: The Birth of Prison called “Panopticism”‚ Michael Foucault tells of a society struck with plague and invested with Lepers‚ where they use the idea of Panopticism
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Different sociological theories advance different arguments about the way in which particular forms of social power (political‚ economic‚ cultural & technological)‚ shape distinctive characteristics of modern societies and the consequent changes in previous forms of such power. Debates about power necessarily involve different understandings of both the nature of social reality (ontology)‚ and how we best go about acquiring knowledge of that reality (epistemology). An important issue in this debate
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script which is irrevocably linked to the governing discourse on sexuality (power-knowledge). The concept of power to Foucault is that which is enforced not by authoritative top-down legal policing
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according to the rules and guideline knowing that if they don’t‚ it will show up in one of the technological methods of monitoring. Thus the panopticon proves to be a good metaphor as it accurately displays the power of knowledge. More importantly Foucault would be most concerned by Machine Bureaucracy because the structure consists of highly formalised works and therefore power takes form through monitoring. The workers are monitored according to the set tasks and standard designs. Everything is done
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