Submit a 3 (full content) – 4 page paper. Use either ASA (American Sociological Association) style (see ASA and APA Writing Style Guides) or APA (American Psychological Association) style for your paper. This includes 1\” margins, Times New Roman font at 12pt., double spacing, a title page, bibliography page, and citations for any material that is not your own work. Save your paper in DOC/DOCX, RTF (rich text format) or PDF (Acrobat). Note: Open Office users should save in PDF format to retain the spacing!
After reading the CyberfacePreview the documentView in a new window article and the excerpt from Goffmans Presentation of SelfPreview the documentView in a new window, write an autoethnography to make your own impression management visibleand to help you see how integral it is to your everyday life. You will observe yourself acting and interacting in two different social situations, and will then do a comparative analysis of your presentation of self in each setting. Make sure to use Goffmans terms in your paper and quotes from all of the readings to earn full points!
Choose two very different situations that you will encounter this week in everyday life, and commit to observing yourself for thirty minutes as you participate in each. For example, you may observe yourself at work, at a family birthday celebration, at lunch with friends, in your math class, riding on the bus or train, or watching a football game. The two situations you choose dont need to be extraordinary in any way; in fact, the more mundane, the better. But they should be markedly different from one another.
After observing yourself in the two situations, consider all the following questions.
What kinds of things do you say (expressions given) in each situation?
How are your facial expressions, style of dress, body language, etc. (expressions given off), different in each situation?
How do you modify what you do and say in each situation? Are there things you say or do in one that would be inappropriate, strange, or even absurd in the other?
What type of front do you encounter when you enter each situation? And what type of personal front do you bring to each?
How does the region or setting affect your presentation of self there? Can you identify backstage regions and frontstage regions for each situation?
Who are you in each situation? Do you present a slightly different version of yourself in each? Why?
As you observe the most minute of your interactions, you will probably discover that you perform somewhat different versions of yourself in the two situations. Doing student, for instance, might be very different from doing boyfriend.
Your final paragraph should respond to this final Goffman-inspired question: does engaging in impression management mean that we have no basic, unchanging self? If we bring different selves to different situations, what does that say about the idea of a true self?
GRADING RUBRIC
Here\’s how I will grade your paper.
Paper Content:
+40 First interaction observation using questions from assignment to guide your essay (up to 40 points for full & complete response, this will include quotes from both articles)
+40 Second interaction observation using questions from assignment to guide your essay (up to 40 points for full & complete response, this will include quotes from both articles)
+20 Final paragraph responding to \”Goffman-inspired question\” (up to 20 points for a full & complete response, this will include quotes from both articles)
Paper formatting requirements
__ 1\” margins (-5 point for not following directions)
__ 12 pt font in Times New Roman (or Times if you have a MAC) (-5 point for not following directions)
__ Double spacing (-5 point for not following directions)
__ Title page with Running Head, title of your paper, your name, and the class & school (-5 point for not following directions)
__ 3 (full) content pages as a minimum (-10 or more points)
__ In-line citations, if necessary (-5 points for not following directions)
__ References page, if necessary (-10 points for not following directions)
Any paper submitted with 5 or more typing/spelling errors will have a minimum 10% point deduction.