The Presentation Of Self And Everyday Life By Erving Goffman

Boyd, Danah. “Impression Management in a Networked Setting” Reading pop culture, 2nd Ed Edited by Jeff Osbourne. Bedford / St. Martins, 2016, PP, 122-127

Performance. The interactions are viewed as a performance, constantly being shaped by the environment and audience, with the objective of providing others with impressions that are consonant with the desired goals of the actor. Specifically Goffman states as “all the activity of an individual which occurs during a period marked by his continuous presence before a particular set of observers and which has some influence on the observers” (1959, 32). Goffman (1959) uses the

Another outstanding concept in this movie was self-presentation/tactical impression management. Self- presentation and impression management are petty similar because they are both processes by which individuals attempt to control the impressions that other form of them during interaction. (DeLamater, 89-90). Throughout his movie Olive presents herself to everyone at her school as someone she was not. She was

Impression management is usually used synonymously with self-presentation, in which a person tries to influence the perception of their image. The notion of impression management was first applied in face-to-face communication, but then was applied to computer-mediated communication. Also this concept was applied into different field of study from academic research in the field of psychology and sociology to practical fields such as

Within my daily interactions in my life, I observed impression management with my younger brother at his basketball tryouts. Impression management is defined as “the communication strategies people use to influence on how others view them” ( Chapter 4, 80). An example of that happened a month ago at my brothers’ basketball tryouts, my brother from what he perceived to me when we

In The Presentation of Everyday Life, Goffman lays out the seven elements that create a performance: belief in the role that is being played, the front or ‘mask’, dramatic realization, idealization, maintenance of expressive control, misrepresentation, and deception/mystification. Using the simple description of someone interviewing for a job, we can see that “As he seeks to assume the role of an ideal employee (idealization), he tries (in his performance) to convey a certain image about himself through his dress, his speech, and his expressions (his front), emphasizing those things that he wants the interviewers to know (dramatic realization). He has to maintain control over these expressions throughout the interview (maintenance of expressive control). Any lapse in his performance in that role (misrepresentation) may lead to him revealing those things that he has been trying to conceal (mystification).” (Corbin, 2012)

According to Goffman and what impression management is that it people act different in different places to match the setting like there appearance or social setting. People must engage in this because it helps people adapt and learn skills by being able to quickly adapt in a different environment. The reasons we do this is for social approval and for identity development. People like to be accepted in certain ways. People we adopt different social skills for the appropriate situations. What Goffman means is that in a certain situations the person’s actions will influence the definition of the situation. What Goffman means by “Working Consensus” is the way people work together or cooperate with each other. I do agree with his impression management.

This question provided an interesting contrast for the impression management theory. Overall, it seemed that these values and/or norms and expectations are to be adhered to. Although, in certain tribes such as the Cherokee tribe, there may be circumstances where these expectations become less strict. We believe that these values are upheld within formal settings

lasting impressions have the ability to change who we are, they change our attitudes, our personalities

There is also the looking-glass self is a concept by which we think of ourselves the way people see us. By impression management, we mean that our

Social stage an active impression of who you are to gain approval of other people which is seen to be the audience

Goffman illuminated the significance of seemingly insignificant acts. Of particular import are a person’s demeanor (conduct, dress) and the deference (honor, dignity, respect) it symbolically accords to others. By expressing oneself to be a well or poorly demeaned person, an individual simultaneously bestows or withholds deference to others. The reciprocal nature of deference and demeanor is such that maintaining a well-demeaned image allows those present to do likewise as the deference they receive obligates them to confer proper deference in kind. Each is rewarded for his or her good behavior by the deference that person reaps in turn. Yet, whether or not an individual is judged to be well demeaned is determined not by the individual himself but, rather, by the interpretations others make of his behavior during interaction. Indeed, claiming oneself to be well demeaned is a sign of poor demeanor (484).

Erving Goffman claims we manipulate our performance of social roles to control how we think about ourselves. According to his idea, we can change how we present ourselves to people, influencing other’s ideas of us. Though him, we are allowed to alter our costume, prop, delivery, set, or rehearsal, and we will notice a change in how people react to our alteration since we are individuals who behave like actors on stage preforming a play.

The sociological concept of “Impression Management” refers to the modifications we apply to our “Authentic Self.” Meaning that the way we show ourselves to society might not always be our real self. It is a construction of self with the purpose of controlling what other people think of us (DuBrin, 2011). The various “Stages” of our day-to-day life demand, or better said, suggest a slightly different version of us in order to meet social standards, or perhaps impress a certain group of society. The term “Stage” --coined by sociologist Erving Goffman—refers to everyday life situations in which we might benefit from portraying ourselves in a certain manner.

Impression management requires regulating and controlling information in social interaction, according to Piwinger et al. (2001). All participants in social interactions are engaged in practices to avoid being embarrassed or embarrassing others, according to Goffman in ‘The Presentation of Self in Everyday