Social Setting is the actual physical place we perform at. This could be our place of employment, a party, our home or a class room. When thinking of our life as a play, social setting would be the set that play is being performed on. This aspect also refers to the way we decorate are space and or props that are used. The role that I am using as an example, a patient in a hospital, the social setting is the hospital, the hospital room and the hospital bed, the equipment that is used or is in the room to …show more content…
This aspect refers to the clothes that we are wearing, our physical stature, race, and stereotypes made about ones appearance. Basically what Goffman is saying here is that our appearances says a lot about us and people usually judge us first on our appearance before anything else. For example, if you dress sloppy and don’t brush your teeth you will be looked at as not caring. My role as patient in the hospital my appearance was pajama pants and a baggie shirt, the multicolor of my hair, me being fat, my height, my race of being white and the stereotype of me being alternative. All of these appearance factors I am judged on and treated according to what people believe of me based on my appearance. The doctor’s appearance is his scrubs, and lab coat. If he didn’t wear the uniform of a doctor we would think he is not a doctor. This aspect of dramaturgical theory is basically how we are perceived by others. The final aspect of Goffman’s dramaturgical theory is the sign vehicle manner of interacting. Goffman believed that this sign vehicle was super important. Our manner of interacting consists of the attitudes we express in an effort to get others to form certain impressions about us. One of the most common ways to convey attitudes is through nonverbal communication, the ways we have of communicating that do not use spoken words. These consist of gestures, facial expressions, and body