Discuss the connection between avoidance/presentational rituals and the concepts of demeanor and deference.
What will be an ideal response?
Through the tactful observance of “avoidance rituals” and “presentational rituals,” the individual is able to proffer the deference owed to the recipient. Avoidance rituals take the “form of proscriptions, interdictions, and taboos, which imply acts the actor must refrain from doing lest he violate the right of the recipient to keep him at a distance” (1967:73). Presentational rituals encompass “acts through which the individual makes specific attestations to recipients concerning how he regards them and how he will treat them in the on-coming interaction” (ibid.: 71). For much of interaction is guided by an attempt to avoid embarrassment and the discrediting of one another’s self as an object worthy of receiving deference.
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