Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
DRAMATURGY AND TEMPORALITIES OF SOCIAL LIFE - Coggle Diagram
DRAMATURGY AND TEMPORALITIES OF SOCIAL LIFE
SYMBOLIC INTERACTIONISM
Mead: people use
significant symbols
that arouse mental images in others + themselves
Blumer: enacting shared meanings with the use of symbols
3 premises:
People act on the basis of meanings
meanings are learned through
social interaction/socialization
these meanings are change through interactions
GOFFMAN'S WORK ON SITUATION AND SELVES
Mead was influental
Self = presenting yourself in a situation
situation:
when people are mutually co-present and are mutually aware of eachother
social situation
= when we start to react to eachother
focused:
the creation of intersubjectivity
unfocused:
both aware of one another, but act like you're not
The self as a sacred object
recognition of the social self by others is very important (the "role" you are playing is acknowledged)
selves can only exist in situations that others acknowledge
The self and the situation
behaviour has to fit the situation
self is a dramatic effect that you have to put effort in --» people take on
roles
Goffman's issue isn't that people are faking or wether they show their "real self"
From self to face
in social encounters people tend to
make clear what the situation is about
their evaluation of the participants
whether they can show their true identity
GOFFMAN ON FACEWORK
Face-work:
people make whatever actions consistent with face
saving face
: emotional identification with one's own + other faces
TAVORY -- BETWEEN SITUATIONS
the situation:
material setting
action takes place
people who are present contribute
they make sense of the situation
problem: interactionism assumes that a situation is given
how to include the future?
a sociology that locates people "between situations"
What determines action?
predisposition (past experiences, social positions) or the situation itself?
Ethnomethodology
: meaning is always retrospective + pragmatic
retrospective:
my reaction = I affirm + confirm the situation
pragmatic
: we try to work forward on an understanding
Borudieu: what people have learned in the past --» determines their actions
Tavory: what are the aspects that temporarily overflow the situation?
Collins: what people gain from an interaction is a certain
emotional energy
which they bring to the next interaction
how people construct meaning of the interaction is important towards the future (pl. unwanted sex)
3 types of future modalitites
Protentions (next turns)
Trajectories (projects, programmes) --» something you imagine yourself to be in the future
Temporal landscapes (taken for granted, general ideas of time)
The problems of boundaries and distinctions --» categorising people
Nominal (boundary)
in or out
ordinal (distinction)
hierarchical
DRAMATURGY: based on how Goffman used theatre as a metaphor for social life
impression management:
safeguarding the role
demeanour/manner:
behaviour that fits the role
defference:
the other people recognise your role
appearance:
indicators of social status
props
: things that help you play your role
back-stage:
where people prepare for the situation
front stage
: where people "perform"
tact and teams:
ways to help eachother to have a successful performance
Goffman:
disruption of the situation
is the problem