comment on ashleigh blog

here is the link to my comment on ashleigh blog post

http://asheverydayinteraction.blogspot.com.au/2012/09/beauty-pageants-stage-mums-and.html?showComment=1347877006116#c133429105063713138

mask of true self response

Response to Jo Damcevski- Mask of True Self Post

Jo Damcevski you have, made a very god point here, and it is true we do put on a mask when we are at work or with friends and each mask can be very different as it may not be the person we are in every day life. We put on these mask to ensure that we can do our job to our best our ability and until some one points it out in a cases like this we do not realise the difference and what attributes we withhold in different circumstances.

Yes as Goffman argues ‘we are always wearing masks in order to make it to the highest point possible in the social ladder’. This is a true point as through this we, sometimes push ourselves further a work as an example to ensure we can get further in life or where we want to be. Good point being that it is our truer self and the person that we want to be and by putting on mask in some cases helps us to show our true self in everyday life.

Performances blog

Second blog of semester

Found this week tutorials very interesting with the first data discussion presentation being completed and it looked at ‘ Performances’ and with reference to Goffmans reading.

The data discussion looked at performances in relation to the reality television show ‘Toddlers and Tiaras’ and how they the show is primarily based around mother who are living through there daughter and in a way constructing there daughter to be what they want them to be or wish themselves where and then conducting the daughters like puppets to perform in particular ways. In extreme cases even giving there daughters ‘stage names’ so they know when they have to act as them themselves and when they need to act, dance, and smile and walk a certain way etc.

Goffman talked about face work and this is clearly present in this realty show as both the mother and daughter and putting n an ‘act’ and performing not only for the camera and the judges, but for all the other participant of the pageants and there family and friends. This is clearly present in the segment we watched in class that contained a mother ‘Mellissa’ and her daughter ‘Carly’, whose stage name was ‘Darla’ and when the show was being filmed she was going up to daughter instructing her how to act for camera and that if she does not she will be punished and in this particular case will lose her iPod. Carly is only 4 years old and her mother Mellissa feel they are the same person as she is instructing her to ‘Perform’