W3.1 March 18(Mon)—MU QING

  1. Summary

Chapters 2 and 4 of "Self-Presentation in Daily Life" respectively explore self-presentation in daily social interactions and coordination behaviors in interpersonal communication.

Chapter 2 focuses on how individuals present their self-image through speech, behavior, and appearance during social interactions. It discusses the theory and concept of self-presentation, exploring how people choose specific behaviors and appearances to project how they appear in social situations. This chapter also examines the relationship between self-presentation and social identity, cultural factors, and personal goals.

Chapter 4 focuses on coordinated behavior in interpersonal communication, that is, how individuals adjust their behavior in social interactions to maintain a harmonious relationship with others. It covers aspects such as communication rules, situation awareness and emotion management, and explores how people adapt and adjust their behavior in different social situations to meet social expectations and maintain relationships.

Together, these two chapters depict how individuals manage social relationships, shape their own image, and establish effective interactions with others through self-presentation and coordinated behavior in daily life. They provide insights into human social interaction behavior and help us better understand the complexity of interpersonal relationships and social interactions.


2. Interesting projects

In Chapter 2, Goffman introduced the concept of ‘drama group’, emphasizing the importance of groups in social interaction and the collaboration within groups. Goffman defined a theater group as a group of collaborative individuals who participate together in the performance of a single routine. A mutually beneficial and interdependent contractual relationship is formed between the members of the troupe, and they need to jointly maintain a specific situation definition. Therefore, impression management becomes crucial, and cast members need to maintain consistency and a unified voice to maintain a good appearance. Members form a complicity in maintaining the definition of the situation, selecting fellow actors and controlling the stage settings to aid the performance. However, as a close participant in the theater group, the individual will gain insight into the secrets of other members' performances and cover up the facts or hide the truth, thereby becoming complicit. Goffman pointed out that any media organization can be regarded as a drama troupe. The media constructs a specific impression of reality while conducting dramatic dialogue with the audience. This perspective provides us with a new perspective on understanding and understanding society, viewing social groups as drama troupes and social behavior as drama interactions.

In Chapter 4, Goffman classified secrets in detail, including closely guarded secrets, strategic secrets, internal secrets, entrusted secrets and self-care secrets. This classification demonstrates the complexity of secrets in social interactions and the different attitudes and ways people deal with secrets. The performer, performer, and outsider roles play different roles in social interactions involving, respectively, the presentation of the performance, observation, and not knowing the secrets of the performance. This differentiation of roles provides a useful framework for understanding social interactions, allowing people to better understand behaviors and expectations in different situations. Dissonant roles include informants, accomplices, agents, insignificant characters, etc. These roles may cause dissonance or disruptive situations in social interactions. This description of roles reveals the complexity and depth that can arise in social interactions, while also reflecting the challenges people face in maintaining situational definitions and self-image.



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