SOC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Peer Group, Erving Goffman, The Techniques
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We play the role connected to our status (or the status we want to have) We present a status through role behavior: The techniques that ppl use to get others to see them in a certain light: managing the situation. Here, individuals can manage aspects of the performance in order to get ppl to see them a certain way. Individual who is presenting self can manage the situation to some extent. To control conduct of others, esp. their treatment of u must get others to define the. Can do this by managing ur expressions. U can redefine ur role in the situation (everybody restaurant: working consensus. Together the participants contribute to a single over-all definition of the situation, which involves: not so much real agreement as to what exists. But rather real agreement as to whose definition will be honored in that situation. For interactions to be successul - ppl must agree about the definition of the situation!
