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Therefore. So: life is like theatre.Are we con artists or just actors?A role is a performanceIssue of
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1. Erving Goffman and dramaturgy Two points:
It is easier to seem to meet social expectations than to actually meet them.
Even if we meet social expectations, if the impressions we make are not good ones, we may be unsuccessful.
3. Why is role playing like con artistry? Roles are really role expectations
Our audience only sees and makes judgments via whats on the surface
If style is crummy, we lose our audience
If style is great, we may keep our audienceeven if the content is crummy
So a cynical performance works as well as a sincere one
4. Billy Tipton How do all or some of these things apply?
http://www.inthelifetv.org/html/episodes/31.html
Try out some possibilities
5. Role playing will affect General social acceptance/isolation
Relations with Significant Others
Jobs/careers
Problems with criminal justice or homeland security
The key is audiences!
6. So life has to be like theater How?
Roles
Scripts
Rehearsals
Costumes
Dramatic realization
Front and back stages
Props
Settings
Ad libbing
7. How is life not like theater? Goffman says theres only one clear way
In theater, but not in life, we dont want to be confused with the character we are playing
Im not a doctor but I play one on TV (actor Robert Young, Marcus Welby, MD, in a TV ad he did for an aspirin product)
8. How can we achieve dramatic realization? Dramaturgical loyalty sometimes work as a team (Goffman on mental hospitals)
Dramaturgical circumspection be aware of potential problems and dangerous situations
Characteristics of your audience
Breaking the frontstage/backstage barrier
Dramaturgical discipline practice not giving away the role even when upset
Perry Mason problem
How Vincent DOnofrio always wins on L&O: CI
9. Finally: sometimes the audience can help Tactful inattention
Keeping secrets (essentially become part of a team)
10. How Common are Phony Claims of Expertise or Training? MIT Dean of Admissions scandal: http://www.thecrimson.com/printerfriendly.aspx?ref=518567
FEMA official diploma mill issue:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=2002484649&zsection_id=2002111777&slug=pennington10m&date=20050910