Erving Goffman

Born on March 16th 1931, Brazilian director, writer and politician Augusto Boal was the founder of “Theatre of the Oppressed.” Boal strongly believed that each human is a theatre within themselves, each person is an actor, and also a spectator. Through watching our own course of actions, we are able to amend them to have a different impact and a change to the world we live in. Theatre of the Opressed is for, by and about the people, and Boal wanted the audience (spect-actors) to analyse the…

A.) Conflict Theory / pg.27: Theoretical framework in which society is viewed as composed of groups that are competing for scarce resources After watching this video I realized that there was a conflict theory going on in these "mega slums". One of the biggest resources that is most competed for is water. Water is so scarce and is distributed unevenly throughout the slums of Dharavi. It 's causing many conflicts. The allocation of water resources is also an issue. More water from the dams is…

For me stigma is a brand that is associated with a specific person or a circumstance. The brand that is left is affiliated in a negative way. For example when something bad happen to you, you will always remember it because you will have it in your memories as a bad. When I had 7 years old I was playing by myself on the second floor jumping with the cable. The cable was there because the builder had not finished building the second floor. When my mom saw that I was playing there, she told me…

Irving Goffman’s dramaturgical approach to the Interactionist perspective states that there are two sides to every situation and every one’s life. In other words, he insists that there is the front and center “performance” that we put on that the whole world sees, and there is the “behind the scenes” work that has gone into making the performance what it is. The key aspect of this approach, at least in my opinion, to keep in mind is that others interpret your “stages” and you interpret other…

Dramatism, a communication theory developed by Kenneth Burke and is used to analyze human interaction. A drama angle of communication equates life and interaction to a theater play or a dramatic movie. The theory strives to reason why people engage in acts and understand the motive behind the acts. Burke created the pentad to use the theory to analyze different acts in human life by applying the five elements. Pentad method is versatile because a specific act can be studied from various…

Erving Goffman thesis on stigma was published in 1963, his work was titled, Stigma: management of a spoiled identity. The Greeks originated the term stigma to “refer to bodily signs designed to expose something unusual and bad about the moral status of the signifier.” (Goffman, 1963.) The Greeks cut or burned signs into the skin of a criminal or a traitor, to create a blemished person, this individual must be avoided at all costs, especially in public. The Greeks definition resulted in the…

Reality…; unreality… : two concepts explored by Michael Gow in the play “Away”. Significant to the play and audience alike, as the concept of true reality is a perception within the individual. Act Two Scene Three and Act Five Scene One, are both significant scene’s as the relationship between the characters, Coral and Roy, is developed. Gow effectively makes use of stylistic and language techniques such as stage direction, music, allegory, metaphor, symbolism to bring the characters and story…

Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. What does Goffman mean when he says that life can be looked at "as if it were theater?" Do you believe this suggests that people have no authenticity or that they are insincere? Defend your answer. Goffman say’s that life can be looked at “ as if it were theater?” because he believes that people change who they are depending on the situation. They alter themselves to fit in or to get people to like them. Goffman says there are “two kinds of communication…

Domain Context: Cultural influence & Architectural influence 5.4. Basically Wyly theatre is a cultural building. Its role is mainly to create a place for acting and performing different types of art. Actually, building design has gone beyond this by providing a space that expands potentialities to unexpected level. The cultural impact of the building is intensive and deeply effective (Wise 2015; 2010). Otherwise, the building design has received great support and high cheering from architects…

Question 4: According to Goffman, everyone can manipulate the judgements which are bestowed upon them by others. This happens through impression management, or dramaturgy. Dramaturgy is the process perfecting and producing a version of oneself to present to others. This typically involves presenting ones best self for the situation at hand, in an effort to receive positive appraisal from others. Essentially, dramaturgy involves the various versions of oneself and presenting the various versions…