Unit 7 Assignmen Cg Essay

Interaction is an important concept in sociology, and it has been studied from multiple different perspectives. Both Erving Goffman and Arlie Hochschild have made notable contributions to the sociological study of interaction. According to Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, interaction can be explained through a dramaturgical model. Within the dramaturgical model, interactions are portrayed as performances, as if a particular social environment is a stage, and the people in that social environment are actors (Goffman). Erving Goffman’s sociological interpretation of interaction is extended by Arlie Hochschild in her piece Feelings Management. Hochschild focuses specifically on performances that are put on in the workplace. Acting in the workplace has become a necessity in the service industry because in many cases, people must act warm and welcoming in order to keep their jobs. This method of acting happy and upbeat in the service industry is called emotional labor. However, as Hochschild explains, emotional labor can cause a strain on service workers, especially when they must act cheerful, even when they feel upset and distressed. The discrepancy between a person’s true emotions and their feigned emotional state is known as emotive dissonance. Continued emotive dissonance can lead to spillover, in which a person’s true emotions come out because they can no longer hold back these emotions. Though emotional labor began in the workplace, Hochschild

In The Presentation of Everyday Life, Goffman lays out the seven elements that create a performance: belief in the role that is being played, the front or ‘mask’, dramatic realization, idealization, maintenance of expressive control, misrepresentation, and deception/mystification. Using the simple description of someone interviewing for a job, we can see that “As he seeks to assume the role of an ideal employee (idealization), he tries (in his performance) to convey a certain image about himself through his dress, his speech, and his expressions (his front), emphasizing those things that he wants the interviewers to know (dramatic realization). He has to maintain control over these expressions throughout the interview (maintenance of expressive control). Any lapse in his performance in that role (misrepresentation) may lead to him revealing those things that he has been trying to conceal (mystification).” (Corbin, 2012)

One’s own emotions can change the way one feels about people. For instance, Roxane’s infatuation with Christian altered her judgment, so she couldn’t connect obvious facts. One night, Cyrano speaks for Christian beneath Roxane’s balcony. Even when Cyrano, caught in the moment, accidentally reveals his true identity,

Pretend you are playing the role of a character named Jordan, while discussing Erving Goffman’s theory of dramaturgy. Jordan finally made it. Jordan finally graduated university and has been lucky enough to receive an offer for an interview at the institution that he had been working towards his entire university career, an interview at the top law firm in all of Toronto. Now it is time to prepare. It is time for Jordan to show the firm that he is meant to be there. To show the firm that this position was meant for him, he must be the best version of himself. Jordan is competing against hundreds of other university graduates, but he must show them that he is the one. Jordan’s first impression matters, he must show them the qualities that they want to see to ensure that he receives the position at the law firm.

1. Identify three quotes from the dialogue that show how Bryce progressed in identifying his emotions.

Another example resulting in character empathy in this novel is short sentences, is on page 32 when the authors write, “Call was entirely alone.” which is important because at this point he was supposed to be meeting Celia, someone who was interested in him, in the trophy room but it was actually an assassination attempt but he thought the reason nobody met him there was because he was uninteresting and that he would never be chosen first. His doubts start showing more and more the longer he’s in the room alone and even when Aaron and Tamara come in the room he starts thinking about how Tamara would always choose Aaron over him and how they were probably going to start dating and leave him as a third wheel, Though when the chandelier fell

Ironically enough, it is in his quest to prove himself emotionless which reveals his moral compass.

The first example of his lack of emotion is his opinion of his father. He hides the announcement of his fathers absence in a paragraph filled with a vivid description of his family’s television watching habits. He simply writes, “Daddy…moved out” followed by his and Shelly’s after school television schedule(19). The only emotion is added in at the end of the paragraph with his statement that, “[they]went to school angry” which simply declares his emotion while remaining neutral to the situation(20). When his father buys him the golf clubs and he overhears his parents’ conversation he does not declare any emotion he simply tells what happened and then moves on to speaking about “Shock Theatre on Channel 13”(20). The first time we see true emotion, especially a positive emotion, after the purchase of the television is when he is speaking of The Brady Bunch. His tone is happier when he is writing about his imaginary life with the Brady’s. He seems proud of his imaginary affair and his response to “Greg Brady beat[ing him] up”(20). This is the most emotion in his writing since the Zenith was brought into their house. The third example is his reaction to his sister’s death. He writes, “Shelly died on Christmas Eve morning…She had wrecked Mama’s car. That night I stayed up late and watched the Pope deliver the Christmas mass from the Vatican. There was nothing

After his journey with Charley, he learns to joke, and for the first time in his life, he allows physical contact with another human being. His final two scenes with Charlie are touching. When faced with the prospect of leaving his younger brother, we can see his inner struggle. Yet he can't express his feelings.

He breaks down at one point in the play, loosing his stone cold “I don’t care about anything” expression. He is still acting out with violence, but it is clear that there is emotion behind it and he felt a certain betrayal brought on upon by Liam. He lets out what he has held in by saying, “You would have run away in the night, abandoned us for one of their women! Where was your loyalty? Where was your honor” (Page 412).

The movie mentions something that is challenging for most of us, which is stop centering our feeling on our feeling. Once we follow this valuable advice, we

Sharing his hardships and developing his persona not only creates a rhetorical backing of ethos, but a rhetorical argument of pathos. He tells the story of how he was fired from

Surface acting is faking the emotions through outward expressions whilst the internal feelings are the same whereas deep acting is the process where the employee aligns their internal feelings to that of the organisation (Mastracci, Guy, & Newman, 2012). Although both require different thought processes, the objective is the same, to align the outward expression to that of the company’s

This lines up with Erikson’s first theory and how due to his early experiences he distances himself from people he doesn’t know ,  has feelings of shame , difficulty showing emotion and many other signs.

In her work, Hochild describes two types of emotional acting, which include surface acting and deep acting. (Hochscild 1983) surface acting is the type of acting most concerned with the workplace in which it is expressing an emotion without feeling that emotion. Most often this involves the covering up negative emotions, with happier emotions or more accepted emotions . On the other hand deep acting could refer to two different emotional actions. The first of which is showing an actual emotion that you feel. While the other could be described as method acting or using past emotional experiences to encourage real emotion