Dramaturgical Theory

Question 1

dramaturgy

Answer 1

the performances of everyday life

Question 2

performance ethnography

Answer 2

how social communities are sustained and their values expressed through rituals, ceremonies, and rites of passage

Question 3

dramaturgical model

Answer 3

ordinary social interaction is like theatrical performance

Question 4

frames

Answer 4

models we rely on to make sense of experience

-define the situations for ourselves

Question 5

impression management

Answer 5

the process of managing a setting, words, nonverbal communication, and dress in order to create a particular image of individuals or a situation

Question 6

backstage

Answer 6

invisible to the audience

-the back of the restaurant where the food is made

Question 7

front stage

Answer 7

visible to the audience

-out in the restaurant where the waiters are so nice and pleasant

Question 8

critical assessment of Dramaturgical theory

Answer 8

-is it a metaphor or is life actually a play
-there is no firm proof so it can not be tested
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