The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Lenz, Karl

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-05871-3_37

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“…Related to our results, Goffman's notion of teams is especially interesting. A team is defined as ‘a set of individuals whose intimate cooperation is required if a given projected definition of the situation is to be maintained’ (Goffman, 1990 [1959], p. 108). In our results, the home care staff did not act with the care recipients primarily as their audience.…”

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“…Some of the home care staff opposed to the theatre metaphor because they associated playing a role with being dishonest and not authentic as a person. However, Goffman (1990 [1959]) described all human interaction as a form of role play, and that people adapt their acts to the social expectations adhering to a situation in order to uphold a common understanding of the situation. Familiarity in our results resembles Goffman's description of common understanding of the situation as a core motive in social interaction.…”

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Enacting person‐centred care in home care services for people with dementia

Hedman

Sandman

Edvardsson

2021

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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Aims and objectives To develop the theoretical understanding of the process of providing person‐centred home care for people with dementia. Background People with dementia are increasingly cared for at home by family members and home care staff. Care of people with dementia should be person‐centred; however, little is known about how home care staff understand and enact person‐centred care in their daily work. Design Grounded theory. Methods Home care staff (n = 29) were recruited from home care services specialised in providing care for people with dementia. Group interviews were conducted, and a tentative theoretical model for providing person‐centred home care to people with dementia was outlined. Nine of the participants were then individually interviewed to further develop the model. The analysis was conducted parallel to the data collection, and hypotheses concerning the evolving theoretical model were continuously tested in the following interviews. The COREQ checklist for qualitative studies was used in reporting the study. Results Person‐centred home care of people with dementia was conceptualised as a series of processes: Getting ready, getting in, giving care, getting out and finalising the story, each with subprocesses. Theatre metaphors were used to describe how the care was provided. A core process, Enacting and re‐enacting familiarity, was at centre in all processes. Conclusions In the person‐centred care of people with dementia, familiarity had to be established and continuously fostered. When familiarity was in place, the care recipient and the home care staff acted as a team to perform the care. The theoretical works of Goffman were used to interpret the results. Relevance to clinical practice The study provides a model for person‐centred care of people with dementia at home that deepens the understanding of its processes, prerequisites and outcomes. The model can inform education and administration of home care for people with dementia.

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Enacting person‐centred care in home care services for people with dementia

Hedman

Sandman

Edvardsson

2021

Journal of Clinical Nursing

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“…In the early phases of analysis, I found that the practice of synthesizing played a central role in enabling teacher educators (TEs) from disparate institutions to converge on a social justice-focused aim and that synthesizing spanned and shifted between physical and digital locations. To extend my understanding of this practice, I drew on Goffman's (1959) conceptualization of backstages and frontstages. Goffman noted that actors are frequently engaging in performances that are for audiences (frontstage) while engaging in practices that occur to enable the performance (backstages).…”

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“…Third, I sought to understand the relation between synthesizing, power and positioning. I used Goffman's (1959) backstage-frontstage theory to identify how synthesizing occurred in and between backstages and frontstages. I reviewed the narrative once more, generating memos around how the synthesizing emerged in and between locations, where both facilitators and teacher educators were positioned in each of these locations and, importantly, how facilitators and TEs moved (or did not move) between the locations as a driver diagram was constructed.…”

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Synthesizing as a power-laden facilitation practice in a networked improvement community

Sandoval

2023

JPCC

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine an essential component of enacting an improvement network: facilitation. In it, the author surfaces synthesizing as a core, power-laden facilitation practice that brought together network members from disparate institutions to converge on a shared network aim and theory of improvement.Design/methodology/approachThis study is situated within a teacher preparation improvement network. Forty-four teacher educators from seven university-based teacher preparation programs participated in the network. Guided by practice theory (Feldman and Orlikowski, 2011), the author collected and analyzed network meetings and artifacts to unveil facilitation practices and their relation to power.FindingsSynthesizing emerged as a central facilitation practice. Facilitators' engagement in this practice produced power by constraining and enabling how network members participated. Finally, facilitators were systematically and advantageously positioned to prioritize some network members' perspectives while peripheralizing others'.Practical implicationsThis paper offers a concrete, detailed window into a core facilitation practice in a network and problematizes it to enable network leaders to be deliberate about facilitation decisions.Originality/valueFacilitation is a central component of effective networks (Rincón-Gallardo and Fullan, 2016) and is considered central to the work of networked improvement (Bryk et al., 2015), but there exists a dearth of research that offers insights into how facilitation comes to be enacted in practice. This study offers detailed insights into one such facilitation practice.

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“…In the book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman (1959) introduced a theory proposing that individuals function as performers in a drama and present themselves as they wish others to view them. These self-presentations are often goaldriven (Leary & Kowalski, 1990), operating within certain "stages" and coming in the form of two performances: frontstage and backstage (Goffman, 1959). Frontstage performances take place in front of audiences, making people cautious of the way of creating impressions.…”

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#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

Guo

Kim

2022

Communication & Sport

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The purpose of this study is to explore Chinese and U.S. athlete self-presentation in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. By examining 1200 photographs posted by Olympians on social media, this study finds that (a) male athletes feature themselves in more revealing clothes than female athletes, (b) Chinese athletes actively show more nationalistic notions compared to their U.S. counterparts, and (c) U.S. female athletes are involved in more subordinating behaviors than Chinese female athletes. This study underlines how the intersection of gender, nationalism, and culture influences athlete social media self-presentation in the global pandemic context. Possible explanations and implications are discussed.

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Cited by 575 publications

References 5 publications

Enacting person‐centred care in home care services for people with dementia

Enacting person‐centred care in home care services for people with dementia

Synthesizing as a power-laden facilitation practice in a networked improvement community

#Selfies With a Mask On: Comparing Self-Presentation of Athletes From the U.S. and China in the 2020 Tokyo Olympics

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