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...