Erving Goffman

Question 1

Term

Answer 1

Scripts; dramaturgical approach; impression management

Question 2

Definition

Answer 2

dramaturgy: the self is performed, involving “scripts”

Question 3

Example scenario (general)

Answer 3

People “perform” professionalism in an interview; manage face in public.

Question 4

Opposing thinking (in course contrasts)

Answer 4

Structural accounts (Durkheim/Marx/Lévi-Strauss) or rational-teleological accounts (Weber), depending on what you treat as primary.

Question 5

Ontology place

Answer 5

Middle

Question 6

How they explain “not sitting down in the waiting room”

Answer 6

impression management—not sitting is part of managing how one appears (competent, tough, in control, not “a patient type”,