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Architecture of Self
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Architecture of Self
Goffman asks, "When an individual plays a part he (or she) implicitly requests his observers to take seriously the impression that is fostered before them" (95).
Self Claims
"A person with a stigma is not quite human" (Goffman 5).
1. How do you see yourself?
2. How do you think people see you?
3. How do you perform your 'act' in front of
others?
4. How do you know others accept your
performance of self?
5. How do people understand who you are?
"It will be convenient to begin a consideration of performances by turning the question around and looking at the individual's own belief in the impression of reality that he (or she) attempts to engender in those among whom he (or she) finds himself (or herself)" (ibid).
Spoiled Identities
Stigma
Dramaturgy: Social Life as Drama
"They are asked to believe that the character they see actually possess the attributes he (or she) appears to posses, that the task performs will have the consequences that appear to be" (Goffman 95).
"Stigma," according to Goffman (1959), "will be used to refer to an attribute that is deeply discrediting, but it should be seen that a language of relationships, not attributes, is really needed" (3).
"Society establishes the means of categorizing persons and the complement of attributes felt to be ordinary and natural for members of each of these categories" (2).
Social settings
Social Identities
Impression management
Nixon November 17, 1973
The ability of a performer controlling the image people see.
Member
Community
Back stage
Front stage
Citizen
Country
Social status is how subcategories are ranked ordered.
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The Self
School
Student
Setting
Employment
Laborer/ Worker