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Sociology Optional PYQ Solutions · Model answer

How does the dramaturgical perspective enable our understanding of everyday life?

  • UPSC 2023
  • Research Methods and Analysis

Erving Goffman's dramaturgical perspective treats ordinary social interaction as a form of theatre — individuals as actors, situations as stages, and the presentation of self as a continuous performance rather than a spontaneous, unmediated expression of an inner "true self."

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  • The Theatrical Vocabulary: Front Stage, Back Stage, and Performance
  • Teams, Props, and Role Distance
  • Total Institutions: The Limit Case of Front and Back Stage
  • A Light Cross-Link to Ethnomethodology
  • Contemporary Relevance: The Digital Extension of the Front Stage

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