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please give me some examples and a start off please! its sociology. assignment below*

Impression Management in Action*

This exercise in ethnography is designed to make your own impression management visible- and 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. This is also known as “autoethnography”.

Step 1: Observation
Choose two 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, etc. The two situations you choose don’t need to be extraordinary in any way; in fact, the more mundane, the better. But they should be markedly different from one another.

Step 2: Analysis
After observing yourself in the two situations, consider the following questions.

• What type of “front” do you encounter when you enter each situation?
• How does the “region” or setting (location, scenery, and props) affect your presentation of self there?
• Can you identify “backstage” and “frontstage” regions for each situation? Which of your activities are preparation and which is performance?
• What type of personal front (appearance, manner, dress) do you bring to each situation?
• How are your facial expressions, body language, and so forth different in each situation?
• What kinds of things to you say 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 absurd in the other?
• Who are you in each situation? Do you present a slightly different version of yourself in each? Why?

As you observe the smallest aspects 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”.
A final Goffman-inspired question is this: does engaging in impression management mean that we have no basic, unchanging self? If we bring different selves to different situations, what does this say about the idea of a “true self”?

Step 3: Write-Up
Create written field-notes to record your actions, interactions, and thoughts during each thirty-minute observation period. Be as detailed as possible. Then write a 500-word essay (about 2 pages) analyzing your experiences by addressing some of the questions in Step 2.

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