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 Introduction to Sociology, Winter 2016 () The Presentation of Self Paper Assignment

Goal: In 5-7 pages, reflect upon, analyze, and compare two everyday social setting applying key concepts and ideas from Goffman’s “Presentation of Self” and any relevant information from the Conley textbook or other assigned readings. You must include a minimum of five (5) key concepts, theories, and ideas that have been covered in the course thus far. NOTE: The concepts, theories, and ideas from Goffman’s work that you are required to address in your paper do NOT count toward the five (5) minimum concepts, theories, and ideas. The paper, worth 50 points, is due via Blackboard on Sunday, February 28 by 11:59PM. Your paper will be graded on the following criteria: content—including application of course material–(30 points), logical organization and flow of ideas (10 points), and clarity of writing and proper in-text citation & bibliographic/reference/work cited information (10 points).

**KEY CONCEPTS, IDEAS, THEORIES MUST BE IN BOLD AND IN ITALICIZED FONT IN YOUR PAPER OR POINTS WILL BE DEDUCTED AS PART OF ORGANIZATION CRITERIA

Read the following instructions carefully to complete your paper!

PRIOR TO STARTING THE PAPER
Selecting Two (2) Social Settings: Choose any two (2) social settings that you typically experience in a given day or week. Make sure that each social setting you choose is clearly different from one another. Once you have selected two settings, you will “observe” yourself in each setting, preferably for 20-30 minutes. Each social setting you choose does not have to be “dramatic” or “out of the ordinary” to do this assignment. Pay attention to how you manage giving your best impression of self in each setting. After you have “observed yourself” in each setting, write down notes about how you attempted to give the best impression of yourself. (Suggestion: review Part II of the paper guidelines below to know what you should pay attention to as you observe and later take notes about your behavior in each setting.) You do not need to submit the notes you take about your behavior as part of the final paper—the notes you take will help you complete your paper. Be sure to write your notes as soon as possible after the interaction has taken place in the setting.

PAPER OUTLINE

I. INTRODUCTION: This is the section of the paper where you provide a brief introduction about your paper. This includes identifying each setting you selected to analyze and compare for this assignment. Explain why you chose each setting for analysis and comparison.

II. ANALYZING YOUR PRESENTATION OF SELF
Once you have observed yourself and have taken notes about how you presented yourself, address the following questions for each social setting you selected.
A. Setting #1

•   Provide a brief description of the setting (you do not have to use the actual name of the setting), the individuals involved (you do not have use their real names—use pseudonyms), and their statuses and roles that relate to the setting. Also describe your status and role related to the setting. Include any additional information that is relevant for your analysis.
•   Identify and describe the “frontstage” and “backstage” areas for the setting. What activities did you do in the backstage to prepare for the frontstage in this setting? What was your actual performance in the front stage? In discussing your frontstage behavior consider the following: What type of front did you experience in this situation? Relatedly, what personal front did you bring to the situation? Did you use any props, scripts, and/or openings in the situation? Explain. What were your “expressions given” and “expressions given off”? Be specific.