Dramaturgy In Everyday Life By Erving Goofman

Dramaturgy is a sociological perspective starting from symbolic actionist, and commonly used in microsociological accounts of social interaction in everyday life. Sociologist Erving Goofman added a new twist to microsociology when he recast theatrical term dramaturgy into a sociological term, Gofman used the term to mean that social life is like a drama or a stage play. Birth ushers us onto the stage of every life, and our socialization consists of learning to perform on that stage.

From Stage, Back Stage.

Impressions are managed within contexts: settings, such as comedians, magicians, are manages professors, preachers, each of whom works in particular settings.

Also important is our personal front: sex, age, hair style, clothing, etc.

We may, in fact, alter these things to suit the situation. Young doctor trying to look older for patients

A waitress, for example, will try her best to keep a cheery disposition while she is dealing with customers, even cantankerous ones, and even if she isn’t feeling well, whereas she may go back to the kitchen and talk about those cranky whiny customers, this would be somewhat more back stage behavior. The most backstage behavior occurs in one’s home environment where you can and be yourself.

Macrosociology is an approach to sociology which emphasizes the analysis of social systems and populations on a large scale, at the level of social structure, and often at a necessarily high level of theoretical abstraction.

Microsociology is one of the main points or focuses of sociology, concerning the nature of everyday human social interactions and agency on a small scale: face to face.