Apply Goffman’s concepts of sign vehicles (appearance, setting, and manner), impression management, and the definition of the situation to someone going on a first date. Then apply the same concepts to someone buying a cup of coffee.
What will be an ideal response?What will be an ideal response?
Varies. The key is that the same concepts are application and the same processes take place in both interactions, even though in the first one the participants are likely to be consciously managing the impression they are giving and in the second scenario (buying coffee) they are not.
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What will be an ideal response?
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