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The part of an individual's performance that regularly functions in a general and fixed fashion to define the situation for those who observe the performance.
Setting & Personal Front |
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| Divisions of Personal Front |
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| A portrayal of aspects of the performer that he or she wants the audience to know. |
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Acting in a manner that incorporates social norms to provide a better presentation of themselves.
Often through hiding or playing up certain characteristics |
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When a society attributes lower status characteristics to people and those people adopt them in order to meet an end.
Example: The American girl “dumbing down” her intelligence to appear more attractive to suitors in a reinforcement of male superiority, thereby solidifying the weaker role of the female. |
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| 7 Things Hidden in Performances |
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1. Secret Pleasures
2. Profitable Activity incompatible w/ performance
3. Concealment of Errors, Preparation, Dirty Work
6. Sacrifice of Standards (Axe instead of showering)
7. Concealment of humiliations or deals made |
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| 3 Types of Unmeant Gestures |
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1. Accidental conveyance through uncontrolled muscles.
2. Performance shows too much or too little concern
3. Poor Dramaturgical direction (i.e. failure to properly set up the scene) |
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| Technique used to keep observers in a sense of awe/wonder. Maintenance of social distance, regulation of contacts are crucial to the process. |
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| Where one member of a team is designated as the dominant member |
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| Someone is elected as the leader of the performance |
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| Where the performance is given. |
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| Area where performers no longer have to perform. Act differently here than in performance. |
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| Rules regarding non-interference and non-molestation of others |
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| Care and maintenance of self and property |
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| 3 Limitations on Backstage Informality |
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1. Ensuring trust that will perform properly in the Front Region
2. Maintaining Morale - Assurance that the performance was good and will continue to be
3. Maintaining discretion for differences between performers (i.e. age, sex) |
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Secrets of the performance known only by team members.
Knowledge of which marks you as a member of the team |
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1. Informer
2. Shill
3. Spotter
4. Non-Person |
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| 4 Types of people not present for performance but posses knowledge about the performance |
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1. Service Specialist - Person who's services are required by performers (hairdressers, accountants)
2. Confidant - Not part of performance but performers reveal details of performance to them (priest, psychologist)
3. Colleagues - Members of another team w/ similar performance
4. Renegade - Colleagues who sell out secrets |
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| 4 Types of Communication out of Character |
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1. Treatment of Absent
2. Staging Talk
3. Team Collusion
4. Realigning Actions |
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| 4 situations that may create scenes |
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1. Team member criticizes a teammate infront of the audience
2. Audience decides to no longer interact politely (Hecklers)
3. Interaction between two teams becomes heated. People take sides
4. Team member requests something that may be rejected |
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1. Access to Regions
2. Inattention
3. Nonobservance
4. Beginners |
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| 4 ways to experience misfitting feelings |
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1. Inappropriate to event
2. Feel too much
3. Feel too little
4. Placement Problems |
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| 3 characteristics of jobs that require Emotional Labor |
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1. Face-to-Face or Voice-to-Voice interaction
2. Required to instill emotion in another person
3. Employer Controls emotional actions |
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| Characteristics of Hard Living, Working Class |
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- Chaotic, unstable lives
- Low paying, unstable occupation
- Lack of access to health benefits
- Lack of Home Ownership |
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Women Without Class:
Members of White Groups |
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Preps - (middle class)
Skaters - (Settled Living)
Hicks - (Settled, Hard Living)
Smokers, Rockers - (Hard Living) |
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Women Without Class:
Members of Mexican-American Groups |
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MexiPreps - (Middle Class or Settled Hard living)
Las Chicas - (Settled Living)
Cholas, Hard Cores - Hard living |
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