SA 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Guy Goma, Ascribed Status, Georg Simmel

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Sociology and Anthropology
• Course: SA 150
• Professor: Lindsey Freeman

Document Summary

Can help us think about small-scale, face to face social interaction. Simmel can help us think about social distance: the distance between individuals or groups of individuals in the spaces of social life. Simmel also wrote essays on the social distance between social classes, what we think of now as economic segregation. Another sociologist working with daily, one on one social interactions. How can you imagine you appear to others. How you imagine those others judge your appearance. Presentation of self in everyday life (1959) goffman"s landmark study. The dramaturgical approach: sociological research that utilizes the methodology of life taking place on a stage with a front stage for public display and a back stage for personal encounters. It is important to note that in most cases neither the front stage or back stage performance should be considered as false. Impression management: the term goffman used to describe the tactics ppl employ when presenting themselves publicly.