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Title: Erving Goffman introduced the idea that in everyday life we perform our assigned Post by: colleen on Oct 27, 2012 Erving Goffman introduced the idea that in everyday life we perform our assigned roles, and maintained that our social life was like a drama enacted on a stage. Discuss his approach to the study of everyday life. Include in your discussion his ideas of front and back stage, as well as impression management
Title: Re: Erving Goffman introduced the idea that in everyday life we perform our assigned Post by: ThePsychic on Nov 8, 2012 According to Goffman, in everyday life we play our assigned roles just as if we were on the front stage, the place where we deliver our lines. These are the situations in which we try to manage people's impressions of us and use our roles to communicate the ideas that we want others to form about us, hence impression management. The back stage represents those places that we can go to for privacy and where we can allow ourselves to relinquish our roles. Goffman also suggested that we use sign-vehicles – social setting, appearance (including props) and manner – to communicate information about ourselves.
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