SOC 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Moral Character, American Sociological Association, Associate Professor
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1954-57: university of california, berkeley, assistant professor, 1958-59, Associate professor, 1959-62, professor of sociology, 1962-68: university of pennsylvania, philadelphia, benjamin franklin professor of anthropology and sociology, 1968-82. Using the language of the theater to analyze the structure of social encounters. We seek out information about other individuals through our interactions. As performers, we hope to elicit particular responses from our audience, and as. We are simultaneously performers and audience members audience members, we support the validity of others" performances: performer: belief/act/self, performance, setting, observer: belief/reaction. Sincere performers believe in their own performance demand a particular performance example, in order to gain power or money. Cynical performers do not believe in their own performance. For instance, showing concern for a family member who is sick or expressing gratitude for a gift. We might have a sense of ourselves as caring we believe it and we perform it. An obvious example would be people deliberately using deceit for self-interest for.
