What Does Goffman Mean By Working Consensus

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

Everybody in the club wants to be cool and be accepted by their peers. They want to feel as if they belong, so they have succumbed to peer pressure, so they do and act as the herd does. They are afraid of upsetting the herd and being outcast, so they will do anything to stay with the group. Sobernation.com writer Tim Stoddert writes about peer pressure facing teens in an article titled Peer Pressure to Use Drugs - What Is the Effect. In his article he says, “In fact, kids nowadays may be feeling even more pressure than ever due to how prevalent drugs are in entertainment and the media. It may seem like everyone is drinking or using drugs.” And with that in mind, where is Bobby again? Bobby is at the center of everyone’s attention. He is on a giant television screen partying endlessly, looking down at everyone, inviting them to join his party and be like him. All the club goers are dressed alike, act alike, and want the same thing. They want to leave their lives behind and be digitalized so that they can have what Bobby has. They all want to be digitalized, and to be worshipped, the way everyone in the nightclub worships the ultra-cool digital Bobby. In one scene, Bobby puts a random girl up on the big screen to dance with him, and she is ecstatic to have gotten a slight taste of digitalization. She is not in her own little world yet, but she it the center of attention of the herd for just a brief moment. It is

The documentary demonstrates how these cliques, to many students, are in a social hierarchy. Where one is on this hierarchy isn't just based on personality, but is strongly tied to "the way you walk" or the "clothes you wear", meaning that those at the top are the people with "proper" mannerism and the most money, which grants you social capital. Some, particularly students of color, dismiss these notions and believe the upper class to be generally snobbish, as they think that the upper class believes themselves to be better. One teen, who has a working-class mother that is too proud to get welfare, is ashamed of his trailer home and family. Meanwhile, his mother takes 10-mile walks where she is subject to harassment to work at burger

The North Hanover Mall is an average shopping center with various stores and small attractions. Typically, the mall is not over-crowded; however, during the evenings and weekends it is well-traveled. There are the average chain stores such as JCPenny’s, Dick’s Sporting Goods, Hallmark, and Bath and Body Works. Likewise, there are some smaller, lesser known stores, for example, a few nail and hair salons, cafes, a pizza shop, and a sports apparel store. In general, there is a diverse mix of people shopping, from ethnicity to ages and group sizes. The night I choose to do my social observation the mall was much busier than I had anticipated. There was a Halloween event and an antique car show; both circumstances brought more individuals than usual into the shopping complex.

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

On a daily basis one has the ability of witnessing individuals of different social classes interact, mix, and sunder into groups amongst themselves. As one observes people interacting with each

I decided for my social observation the mall would be a good place to start. I came there on a Friday evening when there should be plenty of people to watch. I also sat in the Barnes and Noble café after that to observe. I expected to see a lot of people shopping and conversing. A few things did stand out to me within the few hours I was there. Some things I didn’t expect to see. We are expected to behave a certain way in public determined by our culture as to what is acceptable. Some people stay well within the lines while some might stray outside the norms but never too far typically. Usually the ones to travel to the extremes are adolescents and teenagers. This is what I observed.

This essay aims to explore and describe some of the key studies within Social Psychology and show why social psychology is still important within the science of psychology today. Social psychology was once described by Allport (as cited in Lindzey & Aronson, 1985, p.5) as, “the scientific study of how people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviours are influenced by the actual, imagined or implied presence of others”. One of the first psychologists to study social psychology was Kurt Lewin. Lewin is considered the “father of social psychology” by many as he took a stand against the dominant behaviourist approach during the 1920’s through his belief that interaction between the individual and their environment is key to affecting behaviour, rather than environment alone. His revolutionary ideas matured into the study of group dynamics, which is widely used by many organisations today (Collin, 2012).

In Murray Milner’s: Freaks, Geeks, and Cool Kids, chapter three mainly talks about conformity and how it really takes place in school, specifically high schools. Throughout the entire chapter Milner talks about what these students do in order to conform with the rest of the “school society”. The basic rules and regulations these teens have to go by in order to really fit in with certain groups. Milner talks about different topics throughout the reading which breaks the entire aspect down for better understanding. He goes from the idea of crowds and their rankings, clothes and the styles that are in demand, speech and different language, all the way down to body language. The status of how a person displays themselves equals the status they are with a specific groups and idea. The idea of a person being broken down

Robert Merton explains it himself with the Strain Theory on why people become deviate. The video stand out a lot how the girls try and copy what the most popular wear and how can they be able to interact with her and her friends, what makes them cool basically. It happens a lot wherever people go it's a social norm and deviance is a norm that people are put in certain situations like the one in the

I asked the cashier if it was normal for the dine-in customers to usually be old, and she replied that it was. Teenagers rarely came to dine-in at this branch from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. Usually they just went to the Starbucks and Tim Hortons next to the local high school. And the older people who usually came into the shop would relax and spend some time inside. This is a social construction because of the idea of teenagers being in school from 7:00 A.M. to 3:00 P.M. The idea and application of high school itself is a social construct. Society created the concept that the physically young should go to school (and work). Similarly, the idea that the physically elderly should not work is a social construct. There are also “certain behaviors that people typically associate with certain age groups as being ‘appropriate’ or ‘acceptable.” (Boundless 2016). It is completely acceptable for an elderly person to spend a few hours inside a coffee shop. However, a teenager relaxing inside a coffee shop, on a school day, would turn a few heads. Conversely, an elderly person attending college classes would definitely draw attention. These examples show how society dictates behaviors that are acceptable for

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

Goofman's dramaturgical model of interaction is similar to Cooley's "looking glass self" in that we are judged daily by our peers, that we care what others think of us and we try to modify ourselves so that we are able to give a good impression and not a bad one. Impression management is 1 aspect of his model. We try to give off a good impression to our peers. Basically, we are trying to show them our best side. They are also similar as they both involve emotions

I walked into River Crossing Mall to observe the youth of today. As I entered the mall, my first thought was that watching young people surely could not generate an entire four-page report. You see, I have never taken an interest in watching people that I did not have any direct contact with. I took the escalator down to the first level and I ordered some Chinese food and a diet coke. I found an empty table and proceeded to let the observation begin.

“Social influence is the process by which the actions of an individual or group affect the behavior of others” (Feldman 495). These influences are strongly experienced by members in the group. Every group is unique and is mostly guided by a particular norm and behavior. An individual in a group passively or actively allows himself to be influenced by the group just to have a sense of belongingness. In the bid to prevent being excluded or rejected from a group, some individuals overtly adhere to the norms of the group. “Thus, people conform to meet the expectations of the group” (Feldman 495).