Through the detailed works of Erving Goffman’s: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life compared to Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann’s The Social Construction of Reality, assessed the daily social occurences of everyday life that create the basis of people’s behavior through social interactions. The extensively observe the interactions of people in a variety of scenarios as their learned behavior is applied to those certain situations. Their observations reveal how the social interactions of individuals create the social reality in which people live. Furthermore, they reveal that the basis of one’s social reality is a concept that has been influenced by a variety of factors over an extended period of time within their society and how an
…show more content…
Typically, people have been taught to present different fronts in different situations as they assess what is considered appropriate to present as a certain type of behavior. The front that people present consist of the setting, their appearance and the manner in which they present themselves in social situations. Specifically, labeling a front as “part of the individual’s performance [that regularly functions] to define the situation for those who observe the performance” as one’s front creates a standard of how one should behave in various situations (Goffman, 13.) This also correlates with the idea of structured action that may conflict with the dilemma of expression. In contrast to presenting fronts within a society, structured action has been developed over a period of time that lays out appropriate behavior to the circumstances of a situation and has been learned through the process of socialization. As people deal with structured action on a regular basis, they will ultimately develop impressions of certain situations, people and ideas or concepts. Developing impressions is an inevitable factor that greatly impacts people through social influences. In order to maintain certain impressions, order must be maintained with mutual coherence over small disruptions that could potentially alter these …show more content…
An individual’s behavior and reaction to certain situations is not inherent knowledge, but is accumulated through experience and gained through one’s socialization into a society. Similarly, they clearly addressed that one’s understanding of the social world is a created concept influenced by these behaviors that are presented to the social world. As people continuously interact with one another and behave in certain ways in order to maintain harmony, this ensures the solidarity that creates the basis for a
Typically, people have been taught to present different fronts in different situations as they assess what is considered appropriate to present as a certain type of behavior. The front that people present consist of the setting, their appearance and the manner in which they present themselves in social situations. Specifically, labeling a front as “part of the individual’s performance [that regularly functions] to define the situation for those who observe the performance” as one’s front creates a standard of how one should behave in various situations (Goffman, 13.) This also correlates with the idea of structured action that may conflict with the dilemma of expression. In contrast to presenting fronts within a society, structured action has been developed over a period of time that lays out appropriate behavior to the circumstances of a situation and has been learned through the process of socialization. As people deal with structured action on a regular basis, they will ultimately develop impressions of certain situations, people and ideas or concepts. Developing impressions is an inevitable factor that greatly impacts people through social influences. In order to maintain certain impressions, order must be maintained with mutual coherence over small disruptions that could potentially alter these …show more content…
An individual’s behavior and reaction to certain situations is not inherent knowledge, but is accumulated through experience and gained through one’s socialization into a society. Similarly, they clearly addressed that one’s understanding of the social world is a created concept influenced by these behaviors that are presented to the social world. As people continuously interact with one another and behave in certain ways in order to maintain harmony, this ensures the solidarity that creates the basis for a