SOC103H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Erving Goffman, Labeling Theory, Role Conflict
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Social scripts: culturally constructed socially enforced practices that we are all expected to follow. Social forms: social arrangements that arise out of interaction (or intention), but not socially enforced, sometime even unaware. Howard becker: labelling theory (e. g. label someone as outsider, deviant) with society (stigma) When normal people are labelled as deviant, they tend to develop their own patterns of behaviour. Sequential model of deviance: during certain period, factors affect people to deviate rather than stay "in the life" Become a deviant new norms join a community (subgroup) interact. Attention to rule enforcers: why we label people as deviant social rule make. Erving goffman: social scripts dramatrugical approach of symbolic interactionism. Think and understand social life as theatrical production (social role) deviance. How people dress and behave in different situations. If break the social script, people confuse and upset until someone fix the interaction glitch. Identity: who people are described and perceived; it is socially determined and different then personality.
