How can erving goffman’s idea of impression management and face-work be used to understand social behavior?

    October 7, 2022

Instructions: Read Witt Chapter 4 Download Witt Chapter 4. Answer the following questions (thoroughly and completely and in your own words), then submit.
1. Nature and Nurture: What do twin studies tell us about nature/nurture? Also, discuss the influence of heredity in explaining the process of one’s personality and intellectual development. Provide examples. (REFER TO Socialization content lesson 1.2 in this week’s module for TWIN STUDIES)
2. What is the self? According to Charles Horton Cooley, explain the “looking glass self” (discuss the three phases). George Herbert Mead also discusses the stages of the self: identify differences between I and Me. What is meant by significant others? How are significant others related to the self? Identify Mead’s three-stage process of self-development.
3. Explain the dramaturgical approach. What occurs on front-stage? What happens in backstage? How can Erving Goffman’s idea of impression management and face-work be used to understand social behavior?
4. Identify the agents of socialization. What is the role of schools in gender role socialization? How has technology (computer, cell phone, email,

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