Irving Goff Man
Irving Goff man was one of the founders of the American sociology. He portrayed that people are like actors they are shaped through the way you relate to others. He argued that Moral behaviors’ of people come up through the environment that surrounds you. He explained that human beings are supposed to think, and that can be brought through social interaction. Goffman made the advancement of using face to face interaction with people.
Goff man argues that we take different roles according to environments .like in workplaces and school is where one can assume the role of the social stage. On these social stages, we go up against parts, in connection to other colleagues and painstakingly deal with the impressions we radiate keeping in mind the end goal to ‘fit in’ to society or potentially accomplish our very own objectives. In that, most exhibitions on the social stage fall somewhere close to these two substances. What is required in social life is that the individual learns enough about pretending to satisfy the fundamental social parts that are expected of him about his life?.Majority of us become tied up with this’ and carry on what is anticipated from us, so we put a component of ourselves into our parts, yet in the meantime, we don’t get into our parts in a good way. So most acting is either completely ‘true’ or completely ‘imagined’ and many people sway amongst gravity and negativity for the day and all through the part they are playing.
I chose to interact with a student in Lexus University. We had a little conversation about her social life, and she was free to tell me about her life. The conversation we had ideally helped [me to know how people managed to have interpersonal communication. She was ready to say to me about her cultural ways and how she tried to adopt them. The girl is initiated and plays a symbolic play in adulthood. She completed school at Greenfield high school, and she achieved good grades that could enable her to join the university. She was born in May 1992, has a young brother who lives with the mother and their father works abroad. The observation took place in the university compound where she had just joined. She likes browsing the internet during her free time. She engages in sports like football and basketball during her free time and martial arts. She loves counseling her peer friends who are in the adolescent stage, and she finds it amusing.
Therese says that her social life has been impressive because of his boyfriend, David. They met in one of the restaurants in the university. It was love at first sight explains was dating somebody else but they had to end the relationship so that they could start dating with although they began as friends. They say that their relationship has so many issues. Their issues have been petty and painful at the same time. At one point Therese told David your mobile phone has passwords like that of Camp David who wanted privacy because of the work he was doing. I laughed aloud because it was funny to refer David to that big name. David, on the other hand, could say his mobile phone was private this made me wonder too. How can a couple of mobile phones be private? ‘Wonders will never end” I said. However, after consultation with the parents and counselors, David stopped that. Then I was forced to ask him why he always did that he said that he wanted a private life. But after that issue, their relationship became good. Therese could access David s phone, and she could know whom they were speaking all the time. They both apologized when they are wrong. They have solved several differences within themselves, and the problems have been a threat in their relationship. Music and dance is an important factor in an adult development played music while doing her house chores .D avid will always join her while holding her waist.
They will take roles in the way they did the dancing .J was flexible in dancing so she could teach David in dancing, a dance that was commonly known as salsa’. The danced while laughing aloud one could easily judge they are couples. She feels sad when David takes long to take a move. Because of her egocentrism nature, she does not want David to teach him anything behaves maturely than Therese. At this age, she thinks about how she will work in future, have her own money, and buy a car of her own. She cooks tasty food, and David loves it. She learns new school on kitchen matters whenever she goes out. She loves mingling with other people who are older than she is because they will advise her on marriage issues.
Therese told me about her western culture .she says that the culture was one of the best things to manage. Western culture it is what that is upcoming in most countries. Therese says that in their western culture the most loved thing is music most specifically rock and hip-hop she means that most people love such songs. That is why Therese and David love it when they are listening and dancing to the rock music instead to the local music. Also in western culture people tend to enjoy man made medicines to the natural one. Natural medicine it is one of the best drugs that has been discovered d, but the western people tend to hate it. Intellectually western medicine can be either bad or good like some medicines are more powerful and helpful to human health. It was quite amusing when Therese says that over her dead body she cannot take natural medication because she thinks it can’t help.
From my observation too is that people from the western culture do not value anybody despite the class level. They say that everybody is equal. That is there is equality among all human beings. A national leader is not above anybody, and everybody is supposed to be under the rule. In western culture politics and the economy fall less than one lane. In that powerful politicians have a significant influence on the world economy (Ytreberg, 2016).By that, it has been maintained through the method of trade. Also in the western society travels and vacations is a regular thing in their lives .Most families feel like they should go out on holidays, and this has become a norm in their daily lives. For example, Therese and David since they started dating they have spent most of their time having several travels and spending their time together and their parents had no problem because this was a norm in their culture.
The two being in the same university they participated in the drama festivals because they were good actors. Goff man emphasized on the need of drama in human beings. That is because people can adjust or change the implications and images that they use in real life and collaboration based on their translation of the circumstance. Drama needs one who can interpret on his or her own. People can make these changes and adjustments because, to a limited extent, of their capacity to communicate with themselves, which enables them to look at conceivable blueprints, evaluate their relative points of interest and drawbacks, and after that pick one.
Goff man says that drama is the parts played to make it significant, the excitement is likened with dramatic conditions in which performing artists show up in a front stage as per the roles they should have an impact of a group or “group.” In the wake of authorizing their parts, the “genuine” self is unexpectedly introduced at the backstage. The effortlessness and assortment of parts individuals play influence emblematic interactions to engage the collective people
Roles can be done in different ways and shapes depending on the way you want to do your drama. Role-taking is a crucial component of association, characterized by specific circumstances and situations. Therese and David have taken part in drama festivals because of their ways of socializing they can act and imitate people moves and sounds the way it is wanted in drama. Therese through her slim physique she is active and energetic, and she can dance flexibly without straining (Goodman, 2017).The intelligence and attention span of J on academic matters exhibits concrete operational stage cognitively. It is evident from his active participation in class and the results she gets with the cats they administered. In that, they are both self-driven in their doings, and this will help them come with new ideas.
In conclusion, Goff man believed in the symbolic way of interacting. He says that people are supposed to interact-ct in different ways depending on the environment. By that, if you are given a new thing to use you might not know the use until someone explains it and by that thorough explanation, you would have interacted. Goffman also says that human culture has to have symbols that help them to be guided. Like the symbol on someone s face can help one to know s status. Like a frown on someone s face is a symbol of unhappiness angry or sad .y that one is supposed to learn different symbols that will guide us in daily lives. Like in drama it is one of the best logos of socializing and interacting with other people. Through Goff man theory this observation has helped me to have time and study people who are not me. There is a lot of information that I took for granted because I saw it as normal behavior. With the help of a textbook, I would relate to why things happen and the main reason as to why people interact.
References
Ytreberg, E. (2016). Goff man, Erving. The International Encyclopedia of Communication Theory and Philosophy.
Goodman, B. (2017). Erving Goffman and the total Institution’.