1. Identity/Role Negotiation Impression Management
Self and Identity II
Identity/Role Negotiation
Impression Management
Behavioral Repairs
Managing Stigma

2. Impression Management
Goffman’s Dramaturgical Theory
We manipulate the impressions we give and “give off” in order to manage other people’s perceptions of us.
This requires changes in appearance and behavior that depend on “systems of enabling conventions.”
Dramatic realization and mystification
Key Components Of Impression Management
Frontstage, costuming, and other “expressions”
Backstage and “dropping my front”
Teams and the “working consensus”
Audiences
Social Establishments
Surface acting and Deep acting (Hochschild 1983)
Expressions given (intentional) and expressions given off (unintentional)
Ways this is mediated by media deception is easier?!

3. Behavioral Repairs Disruptions, Faux Pas, and Inopportune Intrusions
Repairs To Our Identity Performances (Accounts)
Justifications: it happened, it was my fault, but isn’t a problem
Victimless error/denial of injury
Condemnation of condemners
Denial of victim’s (foes, deviants, stigmatized groups) rights
Excuses: it happened, it’s a problem, but not my fault
Accidents and mistakes
Scapegoating
Blaming biology
Defeasibility
Acceptance Of Accounts Dependent On Behavior, Situation, And The Actors Involved
Behavioral Repairs

4. Stigma & Spoiled Identity
Stigma Symbols
STIGMA: A reputation, attribute, or behavior that causes a person to not be fully accepted in society. Often prompts some kind of adjustment.
A person who
“might have been received easily in normal social intercourse [who] possesses a trait that can obtrude itself upon attention and turn those of us [normals] whom he meets away from him, breaking the claim that his other attributes have on us.”
Types Of Stigma
Physical (discredited)
Character (discreditable)
Group Identity
Stigma Roles
The Stigmatized
The Normals
The Wise
Some Responses To Stigma
Get rid of stigmatizing characteristic (disidentify)
Compensate for the stigma (‘But I’m also ”)
Form support/coping groups
Learn responses for stigma-based interactions
Expressions given (intentional) and expressions given off (unintentional)
Ways this is mediated by media deception is easier?!