C. Have the ability to separate and recall your observations before creating a new combination for the stage. D. While onstage, your artistic imagination helps you find appropriate actions for your character. Your imagination uncovers the hidden recesses of your subconscious. It helps you to recall and then adapt your observations for the stage. E. Your observed memories, combined with your creative imagination, lead you to physical actions and ultimately to truthful emotion.
We search for a place to be familiar and feel a sense acceptance, not realising that Belonging is a dynamic process of identification, which establishes a relationship with individuals and their society. The bonds we form with people play a fundamental role in shaping our self of belonging and also transforms through new experiences. The crucible by Arthur Miller demonstrates a constant composition of dramatic techniques throughout the play. Tension is generated throughout the play by the constant struggle to distinguish what is true from what is perceived to be false. Miller’s use of juxtapositions, dialogue, irony, symbolism and imagery implicates his techniques to help implement his ideas into this play.
Given that Erving Goffman’s social actors’ perform roles that ‘’incorporate and exemplify the officially credited values of the society’’ analyse the extent to which such actors are not dissimilar to the passive role obedient individuals found in Parsons’ general theory. The aim of this essay is to compare the similarities between Goffman’s social actors who conform to every day societal norms through their performances and Parson’s role obedient individuals who can be seen to do the same through his Action Theory. Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) aims to analyze ones daily life in terms of the actions and performances we give in order to maintain certain impressions of ourselves to others. Goffman used the idea of performances and actors to display the way in which humans developed their knowledge of people and society, then performed accordingly to the norms of what was expected of them (Goffman, 1959).Likewise, Parson’s action theory is based on how actors as individuals conform to social order through a process of action, goals, conforming to norms and values and dealing with problems appropriately (Wallace and Wolf, 2006). Knapp describes how "people act on the basis of their values; their actions are oriented and constrained by the values and norms of people around them; and these norms and values are the basis of social order" ( 1994:191-192).
3.1 INRODUCTION OF SOCIAL INTERACTIONS Everyone in this world will undergo social life. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2010) defines social as when human beings meet each other for delight in some activity. The social relationship will occur when there is interaction in a community group. Since birth, we exposed into a social relationship. Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary (2010) also defines interactions from the word interact as to connect with others, especially while we do job, amusement or hang out with them.
In this way we are able to know the behavior of people and their living style. The culture they follow and the different activities done for the survival in the society. The art can be visual and decorative art, which includes the painting, sculpture, printmaking, etc. And also music, theater, film, dance and other performing arts also are included in the art. In this duration of time what the people were like and how were they able to manage their living style is the main curiosity among the people of modern era.
Role Playing Role playing techniques is used for human relations and leadership training. Its purpose is to give trainees an opportunity to learn human relations skills through practice and to develop insight into one’s own behaviour and its effect upon others. Generally under this method, a conflict situation is artificially constructed and two or more trainees are assigned different roles to play. In this role play unlike written drama no dialogue is given, a participant has to play naturally. A situation is being given to participants and in that particular situation a role is assigned to the participant.
From this, individuals may develop a definition of the situation. He states in constructing this definition of the situation, actors engage in performances, whereby each tries to present him or herself in a way that will be beneficial. For example, when a person goes on an interview for a perspective job he or she would want to present themselves in a fashion that would be beneficial in trying to capture the job, such as proper attire, resumes, and any prop that would demonstrate skills of portraying a hard worker. Goffman offers several key concept that discuss the performance of the individual in which he or she gives cues deliberately or inadvertently to convey the desired response of their observers. Among
The self is viewed as a continuous process that takes place in interaction with others (Falk and Miller 1998) and focuses on the creation of a personal identity through those interactions (Smit and Fritz 2008). In that sense, my idea of my “self” and my “identity” is always a work in progress (Davis 1992). My identity in this new environment is shaped and forged with a socially constructed group of people (dancers), and my position within a social structure (a dance studio). We define
Then there is the socialisation process. This is the process whereby individuals learn the norms and values of the groups they belong, so that they are ready for social interaction. (www.socialsciencedictionary.com). In other words, it means the process whereby culture is passed from one generation to another. Socialisation starts at birth and ends at death and is very powerful in shaping individuals.
Erving Goffman, a Canadian-born sociologist and writer, who was considered “the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century”. Like many other sociologists of his cohort, Goffman was heavily influenced by George Herbert Mead and Herbert Blumer in developing his theoretical framework. (Mead thought self-development is accumulating by social experience, emphasizes the environment impact on human behavor, and presented the social theory. Blumer, has presented symbolic interaction. He believed that what creates society itself is people engaging in social interaction.