The presentation of self in contemporary social life

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Self-Presentation and the Dramaturgical Perspective

Introduction: "Being Yourself" Is a Performance Too

So Why Study Dramaturgy?

Getting Down to Business

Scholarly Provenance of Dramaturgical Ideas

Analyzing Dramaturgy

Erving Goffman and Dramaturgy

Goffman's Six Principles of Impression Management

Self

Symbolic Interactionism

ch. 2 Persona Watching: Catching Impression Management in Action

Introduction: Reverse Engineering Dramaturgy

Regions, Actors, Performance: Some Service Examples

Thinking of Performances as Cumulative: Social Order, Norms, and Rules

Ratcheting Up Sociological Analysis With Dramaturgy

ch. 3 Sociological Influences on People's Performances

Introduction: Learning How to Act in Everyday Life

Social Structural Forces That Impact Dramaturgical Actions

Think of Social Forces as Interweaving Clusters

Realizing the Analytic Potential in the Dramaturgical Perspective

Nine Contributions Dramaturgical Thinking Can Make to Enhance Sociological Thinking

ch. 4 Workplaces as Stages

Introduction: Dramaturgy in Organizations and Workplaces

Performance Teams: Dramaturgical Circumspection, Discipline, and Loyalty

Organizations and Order

Dramaturgy of Meetings

Contemporary Takes on Dramaturgy in Organizations

Interaction Order and the Negotiated Order

Asylums and Secondary Adjustments

Dramaturgical Infrastructure

Total Institutions

Emotional Labor

ch. 5 Modern Life as Show Business

Introduction: The Thicket of Unreality

Examples of Unreal Images: Illusions, Photos, and Words

Can You Detect Unreality?

Causes of Unreality: Extravagant Expectations and Pseudo-Events

Image Life as Performance

Economics of Unreal Performances and Consumerism

Las Vegas Casinos as "Cathedrals of Consumption"

Magic of Enchanted Products

Dramaturgy: The New Means of Consumption

Marketing and the Dramaturgical Legibility of Themes

Dramaturgical Inequalities: Gender, Goffman, and Advertising

Conclusion

ch. 6 Dramaturgical Involvements in Popular Culture

Introduction: Dramaturgical Involvement in Popular Culture

LARPs: Live Action Role-Playing

Engrossment in Popular Culture Experiences

Dramaturgical Residency

Face-to-Face Interaction

Surpassing Performance Limits in Fantasy or Killing St in Made-Up Worlds

Role Distance and the Actualization Gap

Frames: A Social Phoropter

Extended Case of Frames and Dramaturgy: The World of Professional Wrestling

Stigma, Horror Genre, and Frame Traps

Conclusion: Conflating Reality and Fantasy

ch. 7 Internet: Society's Newest Stage

Introduction: The Internet, Disembodiment, and Networked Audiences

Online Impression Management: Disembodiment and Networked Audiences

Collapsing of Front and Backstage Contexts

Performance Online Versus Off-Line

Altering Performance Content

Deceiving Others Online and Strategic Interaction

Deception in Online Dating and Romance

Virtual Role Engulfment

Exploring Online Deviance

User-Generated Content: Everyone's a Star, Everyone's a Critic, and I'm Into Documenting My Life Onstage

Internet Ranting and Impression Management

Stigma and Cyberbullying

Moral Entrepreneurs

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