SOCIOL 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 24: Erving Goffman, Dysphoria
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Chapter 24: dramaturgical theory: erving goffman: goffman (1922-1982): theorist of interaction. Individuals are actors that put on a performance for one another and who manipulate aspects of stage, script, props, and roles for their own purposes. Basic argument: individuals give and give off signs that provide others with info on how to respond. Sign-vehicles provide de nition of the situation leading to plan for cooperative activity . Unfocused interaction: interpersonal communications as a result of presence and observation. Focused interaction: people effectively agree to sustain for a time a single focus of cognitive or visual attention (i. e. conversation) 6) ritual and ceremonial punctuation of openings, closings, entrances, and exits: set of procedures for corrective compensation for deviant acts. 2) rules of irrelevance: frame a situation by excluding certain materials rules of transformation: how materials moving through membrane created by rules of irrelevance are to be altered for interaction.
