Presentation of Mary

a means to socially interact with others. Aside from being a form of communication, social media also serves as a way for people to display and manipulate their self-image or cyber selves to others. One of the most fascinating traits of online presentation is the flexibility to show only what people want to allow others to see and in a way exclude what they don’t. For this assignment I decided to analyze my good friend Janet’s social media pages and compare them to her corporeal self to…

In the article, Integrating Dark Humor and Compassion, theorist Erving Goffman 's theory of Dramaturgy, is utilized to explicate the various ways in which individuals present themselves in the setting of Hospice care. Hospice care is defined as Dramaturgy views everyday interactions of social life as a series of dramatic performances like that of a theater. This is based on Goffman 's concept of the self, "the sense of who one is that is a dramatic effect emerging from the immediate…

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…

Question 1. The performance approach to the study of the Personal Experience Narrative (PEN) builds on the work of Erving Goffman by expanding on the theory of frames and strips. Additionally, in the article “The Frame Analysis of Talk” Goffman recognizes that the relationship and interaction between the narrator and the audience shapes the social context of the narrative. According to Goffman, the social interaction of the PEN is always “framed” to set the context of the narrative. However, the…

Erving Goffman was a sociologist who originated the study of face-to-face interaction, which he made famous in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman believed that the world was like a stage and related social interaction as a theatrical performance in order to stress the importance of human interaction. He argued that we develop an idea of the impression we want to make on others and we manage that impression through performances. In light of this we are given the opportunity to…

Goffman states that humans are constantly putting on a performance to convey a certain persona. We can look at the Sackler Family, which were extremely concerned with their self-image, similarly to how Goffman describes the use of impression management to control the sense of self. Sociologist show that we get a sense of our self through how we imagine other people see us. The Sackler’s got concerned about their association with OxyContin. While the drug was advertised as a wonderful miracle, in…

Part One: Question 1 While researching Isis, the Black Madonna, Madonna and Child, and the Virgin Mary I was amazed by all of their stories. I was a little baffled by the similarities that I found in my research. Looking at Isis, I was extremely amazed at everything with her. I had never heard of her, so when researching I was fascinated by it all. Isis was an Egyptian goddess. Isis was seen as such a beauty an independent goddess, and a mother. Her name means Queen of the throne or female of…

The subtitle to this book, Elizabeth I and the Politics of Sex and Power perfectly describe the contents within. This book discusses in depth the many challenges that Elizabeth the First faced as the first female monarch of England, something that was much contested throughout the entirety of her rule. Her ability to properly rule on account of her gender was a much contested fact, one that continued until the very day of her death. Still, Levin shows through her book that despite the hardships…

A prevalent image in art throughout the ages, the portrait of the Madonna and Child is a depiction of Mary holding the infant Christ. Incredibly popular to portray, artists throughout the centuries show a great deal of variety in their depiction of the iconic duo. Found in the National Gallery of Ireland in the early Italian Renaissance gallery, The Virgin and Child, Saint John the Baptist and Prophets by an unknown artist and The Virgin and Child by Paolo Uccello reflect the drastic transition…