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Define Dramaturgy |
Presentation of Self in Everyday Life |
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Erving Goffman |
States Social Life is like a drama or stage play: Birth ushers us onto the stage of everyday life , and our socialization consists of learning to perform our parts on that stage. |
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Define Front Stage |
Where we perform our assigned roles. We spend most of our lives on front stages. Ex. Weddings, Lectures. |
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Define Back Stage |
Places where we can retreat and let our hair down. Ex. Bathroom or Bedroom |
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Define Impression Management |
people's efforts to control the impressions that others receive of them. |
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Define Face-Saving Behavior |
When we try to rescue our performance that is going bad. Ex. Giving excuses to save our image so we aren't at fault ourselves. |
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Define Studied Non-Observance |
When we ignore the flaws in the performance |
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Define Ethnomethodology |
The study of how people do things in everyday life. |
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Harold Garkinkel |
known for establishing and developing ethnomethodology as a field of inquiry in sociology. |
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Define Background Assumptions |
deeply embedded common understandings or basic rules, concerning our view of the world and how people ought to act. |
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Define Thomas Theorem |
We behave according to the way we perceive the world. Our behavior depends not on the objective but on the subjective interpretation of reality. If people define situations as real, they are real in their consequences. |
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Define Social Construction of Reality |
Use of Background assumptions and life experiences help define what is real. |
