SOCY 226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Erving Goffman, Symbolic Interactionism, Pragmatism

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Social Sci, Edu and Soc Work - Sociology
• Course: SOCY 226
• Professor: Martin Hand

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What is everyday life: that which we presume to be unremarkable, familiar or mundane, things that are routine and repetitive, things that seem private or personal, things that appear to be simply (cid:498)background(cid:499) Vs. what does it mean to do certain things. Is reality produced prior to interacting with people or is the outcome of what we do: an existing reality in which we act. It is not an accident nor does it come naturally. It is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented. Social life as a performance: when an individual plays a part, she implicitly requests her observes to take seriously the impression that is fostered before them. Performance roles: performance teams, preserving the (cid:494)group face(cid:495) (cid:523)student vs. professor(cid:524, there is more to me than just being a student, role distancing, role embracement, being an institutional representative (parent, teacher)