Detaching myself from the world around me to look in as a third party exposed the culture I have been raised into. To complete this assignments I went to Mirror Lake on campus to observe and document the social behaviors I witnessed. I recorded over a two day span. I first sat by the northern side of the lake on the stone fence, to be aloof from what was transpiring in front of me. The second day I sat on the western side on the grass under the trees to get right in the middle of what was happening.
I observed that people like to be alone. Nearly everyone sat alone or walked alone to their destination. To prove this, there was a woman trying to get students to register to vote on the north side of the lake. Once everyone learned she was …show more content…
As people walked alone the path beside Mirror Lake, or sat down alone at a bench, they were compiling to this cultural idea that people should not be disturbed or approached by strangers. This is evident in the student who was trying to get others to register to vote. She could not have been more avoided even if she had the plague. Another example of conformity that I witness was how exercise is culturally approved. Even if people were not exercising they still wore outfits to suggest they were active. However, if people did not conform to the idea of being active then they were avoided. Those who were not conforming to society were not participating in the world’s dramaturgy.
Dramaturgy is very similar to socialization in the way that it could be used to describe why a culture does anything. Being a college student has it’s own acting role in people’s lives. Students play on their phones. Students work out. Students go to mirror lake in between classes. These norms leak into the roles that each OSU student had to act out as they participated in their newest form of dramaturgy. Even incoming freshman seemed to pick up very quickly on the characteristics they needed to adopt to better play their role. To encourage students to take their performance seriously, society created
I observed that people like to be alone. Nearly everyone sat alone or walked alone to their destination. To prove this, there was a woman trying to get students to register to vote on the north side of the lake. Once everyone learned she was …show more content…
As people walked alone the path beside Mirror Lake, or sat down alone at a bench, they were compiling to this cultural idea that people should not be disturbed or approached by strangers. This is evident in the student who was trying to get others to register to vote. She could not have been more avoided even if she had the plague. Another example of conformity that I witness was how exercise is culturally approved. Even if people were not exercising they still wore outfits to suggest they were active. However, if people did not conform to the idea of being active then they were avoided. Those who were not conforming to society were not participating in the world’s dramaturgy.
Dramaturgy is very similar to socialization in the way that it could be used to describe why a culture does anything. Being a college student has it’s own acting role in people’s lives. Students play on their phones. Students work out. Students go to mirror lake in between classes. These norms leak into the roles that each OSU student had to act out as they participated in their newest form of dramaturgy. Even incoming freshman seemed to pick up very quickly on the characteristics they needed to adopt to better play their role. To encourage students to take their performance seriously, society created