Theory Of Dramaturgy By Reviving Goffman

For many the first year of university brings about many pivotal changes in their life’s, for most it will be the first time they will be living away from home without the support of parents, being asked to meet strict academic deadlines and expectations and they will have to move away from long-time friends who knew them better than anyone else, which can be most daunting. With drastic change happening all around them, students set out on a journey to find new friends and companions to help them through this rollercoaster of a process called university and since most of them are people you may have never met we have to start at the beginning. This is when the theory of Dramaturgy brought forward by sociologist Erving Goffman’s ---social life is like theatrical performance--- becomes prominent in interactions between new students due to the their desire to fit in and make friends. Interactions in university during orientation are based upon impression management, which is a concept of dramaturgy and can be simply thought of as putting the best parts of who you are out to the world so that people will like you more and …show more content…
They’re simply just broadcasting what they feel will allow them to be social accepted in the scenario they’re put into, but though it does not mean that they’re being lying to the people around them but it can mean they’re lying to themselves, if what they portray to society does not actuarially reflect them as a person. Using Goffman’s theory of impression management is not a bad thing but if who you are during moments of impression management start to overlap into your backstage and change who you are then you are no longer acting that way but have become someone you are truly