Down To Earth Sociology

In the book, Down To Earth Sociology, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” by Erving Goffman’s, people literally perform roles for each other, and the point of social interaction is partly to maintain a successful interaction that’s in line with expectations, in views of, satisfying the audience, this is viewed as the dramaturgical approach. The dramaturgical approach is broken down into two parts. It’s broken down into a front stage and back stage. Front stage is where a performance takes place in a social setting. Whereas the back stage is a place where you can just be yourself when the act is over.
Although this may be true, people need to carefully control the information that others receive about them, in a process called impression management. …show more content…
But impression management isn’t merely a matter of what you say and don’t say. It’s also a matter of what you wear and what you do too.
That is to say, it’s a matter of what Goffman referred to as referred to as “Expressions Given”, also known as props, which are verbal and/or other symbols that the individual uses to express information, and “Expressions Given Off”, also known as nonverbal which consist of body language and other actions that the body does, which can be interpreted by others as symptomatic or nonsymptomatic expressions of the individual who is giving them