Goffman Point Of View Analysis

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My life experience for Goffman’s point of view is of the social conceptions of human actions is when I worked at foodmaxx. When working at foodmaxx, I was putting on a performance when talking to the people in line, I had to talk to them and make them happy on their experience shopping at foodmaxx. I was on the stage with the audience watching me. The audiences were the people who were in my line, who were watching me, crediting my performance. I had to make them feel like they wanted to come back again, doing my job as best as I can. The backstage would be my brake room at foodmaxx, where I was allowed to be myself, talks about how stupid some customers were that day, and not have to worry about having a manager around me. But I remember when

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