Erving Goffman Face Work Summary

This lecture covered social interaction and social structure, the lecture started out as a jeopardy style game where two team’s classers and zoomers went against each other. The first question dealt with Erving Goffman’s face work. Face work entails rebuilding one’s image after damage has been done to it. Goffman’s work extends on the ideas of Cooley and Mead. The third question dealt with child development and the play stage, which is when children develop roles. Mead was interested in how we acquire behavior or repertoire. Humans learn general roles to very specific roles, through three different stages, preparation/imitation stage, play stage, and game stage. Next, we took a deeper look at socializing agents which consist of things like