I think we are all conscious at some level of the differing roles we take on in our lives; as teachers, students, parents, children, siblings, spouses, friends. We are not only playing different roles in different situations, we play them…
English 5870
Walker Percy Commentary
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“…the thing is lost through its packaging.” – The Loss of the Creature This is a frightening thought because nothing can be taken as it is, or as you see that it is, or as it is presented to…
Truth and Lies
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Tina Bell 5870 Commentary 5 24 March 2009 Commentary 5 “You see how long he hesitated before answering? That’s a lie. When telling a lie, one hesitates longer before answering in order to think about the arrangement of…
Goffman Response
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James D. Dyer De Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Goffman, Ethnography and the Classroom I have thought that Goffman’s work was fundamentally important to the social sciences since I first read it six or seven years ago,…
Goffman
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Joel Manfredi antivirus software reviews 2013 English 5870 Dr. De Vries Goffman Journal Entry Amazing article. I caught myself laughing at some of the descriptions of Preedy, the “vacationing Englishman,” because although I don’t want to admit it, I…
Commentary #5 – Goffman
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Maria Shreve English 5870 Dr. DeVries 24 March 2009 This particular reading, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman, didn’t sink in as well as some of the other readings we’re been assigned. However, one aspect I…
Goffman Commentary #5
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“The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” Erving Goffman In our society we learn in our early years that first impressions are the most important. They are the standard by which all, or at least most, of our relationships…
Commentary Five
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Mike Calou Commentary Five All the World’s A Communicative Stage There is a lot to discuss about this week’s reading: communication viewed as a theatrical production, the actor-witness as participant-observer, who controls the communication process, projecting a definition of…
class log 3/10/09
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Log: ENGL 5870 3/10/09 Room: Lib 162 Time: 6:00 When speaking, students and professor will be referred to by their first and last initials. BJB = Brenda Jo Brueggeman Seating arrangement of room starting with KMV and moving clockwise: FS,…
Commentary #4 Liminality
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Bonnie Sunstein argues that a good ethnography lives in the liminal space between story telling and informational text. This is a very fine line, because if we force ourselves to present the information we gather in as objective a way…