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Performance and Expectation

Published on Mar 25, 2016

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Performance and Expectation

More theories about everyday interactions
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Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was a Canadian-American Sociologist, sometimes known as the most influential sociologist of the twentieth century

Goffman's Concepts

  • Dramaturgical analysis
  • Front stage, back stage
  • Symbolic interactionism
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Everyday or research applications?

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Judith Butler (1956 -- ) is an American philosopher and gender theorist

Butler's Concepts

  • Gender performativity (maintains and legitimizes the gender binary)
  • "Scripts" reinforced by "regulative discourses" (influenced by Foucault)

Applications?