Select a movie or television show where people are interacting. Briefly summarize the show you watched. Then, use five concepts from Erving Goffman’s dramaturgical analysis to explain what you saw.
What will be an ideal response?
Students should be able to identify the front, setting, appearance, and perhaps the manner of any interaction; actors also highlighting how roles and scripts, role distance, are at work in interactions. In addition, it is likely that students might find terms such as stigma, front and backstage, virtual social identity, actual social identity, discredited stigma, and discretable stigma to apply.
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a. subsidiary group b. marginalized group c. dominant group d. subordinate group
Two factors that have led to the tremendous rise of cyberdeviance is the
phenomenal increase in the use of computers and a) an increased desire for deviant activities such as pornography. b) organized crime. c) lack of law enforcement. d) fewer opportunities for offline deviance.
Identify a statement that is true about verbal interactions according to feminist theories.?
A) ?Generally, men are socialized to be more comfortable talking about their feelings. B) ?Women are more likely than men to do conversational maintenance work. C) ?Women show conversational dominance by reinterpreting the speaker's meaning. D) ?Interaction differences are innate in people because of one's sex. E) ?Fathers who do much of the parenting have communication styles that are opposite to those of mothers.
________ is defined as criminal laws and criminal justice institutions, policies, and practices that achieve justice in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to have the benefits of a just society.
Fill in the blank(s) with the appropriate word(s).