Understanding

Culture, Society and

Politics
Paul Raphael Obispo
Subject Teacher
 Zoom-Out
Begin with a zoom-in image of a certain
object or personality. Students will have
two chances to zoom out the image until
the students were able to guess the image.
 Objective:

At the end of the session, the students shall be able to:

1. Recognize similarities of different individual who have
two identities.
2. Reflect on the changes we do in order to please people
around us.
3. Collect various perspective towards self from others.
 Dramaturgical Analysis
 Erving Goffman (Proponent of
Dramaturgical Analysis)
is a descriptive method to analyze day-
to-day human interactions in society. It
compares real-life interactions to a
stageplay.
Dramaturgical Analysis
Dramaturgical Analysis
 Dramaturgical Analysis
Impression Management
- individuals perform different acts and
masks in front of different audiences. They
do so because they want to fit in or
impress others.
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 Dramaturgical Analysis
According to the dramaturgical approach,
our personalities are not static. They
change depending on the situation.

A key concept related to identity formation

and performance is the “front” and
“back” stage.
 Dramaturgical Analysis

Front Stage
- front stage self is the
persona that we show
to the world.
 Dramaturgical Analysis
Back Stage
- we feel comfortable
and unobserved. We
feel relaxed and don’t
have to put on a mask.
 Looking Glass Self
 Charles Horton-Cooley (proponent)
People changed their identity or personality
based on how others see them.
to understand ourselves, we must first
attempt to understand how other people
see us.
 Looking Glass Self
 The imaginings of how one appears to
another person
The feelings generated from these
imaginations (Pride or Mortification)
Looking Glass Self
 Looking Class
Divide the class into groups of 4-5
members. In a ½ crosswise, students will
write and pass the notebook to their
groupmates until the paper returns to the
owner.
 Looking Class
2 Columns:
How I see How my
myself: classmates
see me:
 Looking Class
What can you say about the way you see
yourself and the way your classmates see
you?
Why do you think we change ourselves
when we interact with different people in
our everyday lives?