Blogging Through Sociology of Everday Life (2023)

    Casablanca is a classic 1942 American film, directed by Michael Curtiz, and is often regarded as one of the greatest films in the history of cinema. The movie is set in Casablanca, Morocco during World War II and follows the story of a cynical expatriate named Rick Blaine, played by Humphrey Bogart, and his romantic relationship with Ilsa Lund, played by Ingrid Bergman.     Erving Goffman's theory of dramaturgy offers a valuable framework for analyzing the film's characters, setting, and storyline. According to Goffman, individuals perform a certain role in a particular social context, and this performance is designed to create a particular impression on the audience. Here are several elements of Goffman's theory that can be identified in the Casablanca movie. 1. Front stage and Backstage In the film, Rick's Cafe Americain serves as the front stage where individuals from different backgrounds come to socialize and interact. However, behind the scenes, Rick's ba...

 are many Goffman elements in this film, and I have analyzed some of them.  The film takes place in Casablanca and at the beginning of the film, the audience is left with a cliffhanger: "Who killed the German couriers, and what are the important documents on them?" Mystification (or deception) is used here. In order to arouse the interest of the audience, a suspense is left at the beginning. At the beginning of the article, there are a lot of actors and carriages, as the background of the film, so these actors are “non-person” The article tells of two German couriers who were carrying important documents and were killed on their way to Casablanca. Then an officer told all soldiers to arrest the murderer and all available personnel. So the soldiers went to the streets in great battle to search for suspicious personnel. The masses were very confused about what had happened. Some discussed, some watched, and some ran away when they saw the soldiers. One of the couples was discus...

(1) Goffman is an American sociologist and one of the leading figures in symbolic interactionism. He is the author of The Presentation of the Self in Everyday Life, and his main representative sociological ideas include the analysis of dramatic elements and impression management. (2) Goffman's analysis of symbolic interactionism is mainly based on his famous theatre theory. Trained in anthropology and influenced by symbolic interactionism, his focus was on the analysis of 'actor' performances. He argued that the world is a stage and that everyone is an actor, whose activities are performed and constitute the plot of a living drama in some sense. (3) According to Goffman, if an actor wants to play his role well and make a good impression on the audience, he must manage his actions during the performance, otherwise he will not be able to achieve the desired effect. Otherwise the desired effect will not be achieved. He calls this management 'impression management'. *Go...

  Goffman's dramamimesis is the study of daily life with the help of the analogy of drama. Dramatic theory is a theory developed from symbolic interaction theory, which has its own characteristics and explains the interaction between people in daily life. In "Casablanca", we can see the following mimetic elements: Character performance: The characters in the movie all have their own unique performance styles, which are impression management, such as Rick's calmness, Elena's handsome appearance and thoughtfulness, Victor's humor and so on. The way and image of these characters are performed so that the audience remembers them. Stage Set: Different scenes in a movie represent different stages (foreground and backstage). Different scenes and environments reflect the situation and atmosphere at different stages of the story. For example, the Casablanca bar, Rick's bar, the airport, etc., are all very important stage spaces in the movie. Plot arrangement: The p...

I read all of Goffman's books in Korean. Then, I will leave a brief comment on this book. Goffman studied the sociological theatrical behavior of people in 'face-to-face interaction'. He suggested the view that our daily lives are like performances that interact with others and produce self on the stage of the world. In other words, when an individual mingles with another person, he or she attempts to control the impression that others embody him or her by changing his or her appearance, attitude, and environment. According to his theory of impression management, the basic premise of impression management is that the actor intentionally constructs the impression within a given situation so that his or her interests are maximized. Impression management theory can be confirmed not only in individuals but also in the way that companies create a positive corporate image for society based on an ideal corporate view. Samsung Group, Korea's leading company, is carrying out var...

 1）Summarize I got as far as chapter four of Goffman's book, which was hard for me to read, so I reread it twice. In the first three chapters, Goffman introduced the concepts of " front-stage " and " back-stage " behavior. Goffman argues that individuals present different versions of themselves in different situations, with front-stage behavior being the performance presented to the public and back-stage behavior being the private behavior that individuals engage in when they are not in the public eye. For example, a waiter in a restaurant may put on a friendly and polite front-stage performance for customers, but engage in more casual and relaxed back-stage behavior when in the kitchen with colleagues. Understanding these distinctions can help individuals navigate social situations and present themselves in a way that is consistent with their goals and values. as well as the idea of "impression management," which refers to the ways in which individual...

Erving Goffman : 1922-1982, American sociologist, representative of symbolic interactionism and advocate of "mimetic theatre". The core concept of the book Self-Presentation in Everyday Life is "mimetic theatre", but many important concepts are also mentioned in the book, such as impression management, performer, troupe, audience, contextual definition, social agency, performance style, ritual activity, codes of decency, routines, backstage, frontstage, outsider, secrecy, operation Consistency, out-of-role communication, unintentional gestures, faults, farce, meltdowns, technique, good manners and a host of other concepts that correspond to what happens to us on a daily basis. Many of our everyday behaviours and roles are false; we do not have a true, stable self, but rather play different roles in different situations. People often believe that they have a core self within them, but this self is actually indefinable because we have to present a contextually appropr...

Project One: Interaction Observation Location: Inside a clothing shop Process： Observer (L): H came to the clothing shop and just after entering, he deliberately knocked over a nearby hanger, people around him immediately looked towards H's side, curious about what happened, then the clothing clerk hurriedly came over and smiled, saying that it was okay, then H kept picking out the clothes he liked, choosing many pieces of clothes and entering the fitting room one by one to try on various clothes, testing the attitude of the clerk and the attention of the strangers around him by this behaviour. In the process of trying on the clothes, H suddenly asked a passing customer if the clothes looked good, the customer was confused for a while, and after a few seconds, he said the clothes looked good and left in a hurry. The couple seemed a bit embarrassed, but they took the photos anyway. People passing by were curious to see who would buy so many clothes, and the shop assistants all looke...

  "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" is a classic work by the renowned sociologist Erving Goffman. This book is based on personal experience, social observation, and empirical research, exploring in detail how people present themselves in social life and the impact of this self-presentation on social interaction and interpersonal relationships. Goffman proposed the theory of "dramaturgical self-presentation," which suggests that people act like actors in social life, performing different roles in different situations and presenting different images of themselves through their performance. He elaborated on various self-presentation strategies in different social situations, including clothing, language, facial expressions, body postures, and use of space, and discussed their functions and limitations. After reading this book, I deeply appreciated Goffman's profound thinking and insightful perspective. He analyzed how people present themselves in differen...

I think this book is a good book for students to read in 2020. I find this book particularly interesting, and the imitation theory has a good explanation for social interaction behavior.At the same time, the cases in the book reveal a lot of inside information, very interesting. Reading this book made me think deeply about some phenomena in my daily life.Many of the examples in the book are what happens in our lives. The author examines some common phenomena in our daily life from the micro angle, analyzes their essence, and gives them a certain theoretical color.For example, a psychiatrist who helps people treat mental illness knows many secrets, but others don't know his secrets, so he is called a "service expert" in the book, and he appears to be a non-starter, but he participates in the performance.In addition, in front of the male students, the female students pretended not to know, and the male students played the role of actors to give the audience an ideal impress...

                       Project One: Interaction Observation Story : On Sunday night, CC (Observer) and KK (Performer) went to a restaurant in the center of the city for dinner. The restaurant is doing very well and is packed every weekend. It is a large, elegant western restaurant with frescoes on the walls and dining Spaces divided into private rooms and halls. CC (Observer) and KK (Performer) choose to sit in the hall for dinner. The hall was full of people. There were young couples, old couples, and and people who come with their parents. Just after ordering food, KK (Performer) began to tell CC (Observer) that she was broken up by her boyfriend. As she talked, KK (Performer) became more and more excited and beat the table with her hands, and her expression became more and more ferocious. The guests sitting around CC (Observer) and KK (Performer) also seemed to feel the difference and looked at KK (Performer) side. After a ...

 About the first week of the first lesson I realized the professor and the class rules and Wikipedia.  "What does Wikipedia have to do with collective intelligence?" I think the term "collective intelligence" is an everyday phrase.  For example, when completing a complex job, the leader may want to emphasize the role of the team and often hear the sentence "This is inseparable from everyone's collective wisdom!" Just like Wikipedia papers may have many authors, but when they are cited, often  Only the first author is mentioned.  Wikipedia is composed of many "first author" results into a huge knowledge network - encyclopedia is like collective intelligence.  The question in the second section is "what is more important: the actions of individuals or the environment that influences them?" I think the environment is more important. If the environment around you is optimistic, that person must be cheerful.  If the environment is negati...

 I think the environment that influences individual is more important than the actions of individuals. The reason is if one good person is included in a large group of bad people, that person's nature could deterioriated later. for example) Everyone in the group(bad people) put trash on the ground (not in a trashbag), the only one good person would mimic this action. and this person could repeat this action because of his comfort -2022078659 이재현 (Lee Jae Hyun)

  A Road to Chinese-type Modernization I am going to share with all of you a story of Chinese-style modernization. Nowadays, a shopper online simply clicks a product in New York orders, electronics made in Beijing  can be  transported across the ocean within days by cargo plane. Cottons have been planted all over the  world. Everyone could wear comfortable clothes made from it.  In fact, all these things we take for granted are obtained through trade and exchange. Exchange itself is far older than we think, reaching back over two thousand years, along a five-thousand-mile stretch  road   known as the silk road in China. The silk road wasn't  a  single road but a network of  multiple  routes that gradually emerged over centurie s   connecting to various settlements and to each other thread by thread In this story, Ambassadors and  merchants were sent towards Persia and India to trade silk and jade  i n the western Han ...

This blog is a digital forum where students from the Spring 2023 class in Everyday Life and Social Structure at Hanyang University in Korea will discuss their weekly readings and activities. Blogs for this class are an optional extra credit activity. An ideal blog post should be about 800 words (for face-to-face classes, or 1,600 words for online classes), divided into three clearly labeled sections in which you: 1) summarize in your own words of materials you read; 2) mention of any new, interesting, or unusual items learned; 3) identify at least one question, concern, or discussion angle that is either problematic in some respect or could have been elaborated more. This question is likely to be incorporated into our class discussions. You are allowed to quote interesting passages from the text(s) you've read, but the quotes will not count toward any length requirements. Note that for this assignment you will need to create a Google Account ( https://www.google.com/accounts/NewAc...