Goffman's Dramaturgical Analysis Of Impression Management

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According to Goffman’s Dramaturgical Analysis, impression managements as efforts to create specific impression in the minds of others. In simpler terms it is how we portray ourselves to others. Along with impression management is impression formation. This is what we do with the information others give us, or in other words, the impression people make on us. These two are used daily because you are constantly interacting with a variety of people, like in this exercise. During the time we had in class I talked to three different people. They were all at random and I had no known them prior to this experience. The first person was a white male, he was dressed in boots and a ball cap. He immediately gave me the impression he was not from a big

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