Goffman talks about how our faces give an emotion in which people use this expression to how we are as a person and the way in which we are behaving. This is what Goffman talks about where faces are an importance facet to interactions. We use these faces to keep up an appearance within our social spheres, and the way we have used these sorts of faces, we use these faces assigned to ourselves and sort of “manage” these faces throughout. He talks about how the interactions we have with other people are dramaturgical in a way that we put on a show or an act within everyday occurrences in our lives to avoid certain embarrassments from our immediate, everyday lives. We are using these different faces that we put on to “fit in” within our culture and social spheres. We create these faces early on throughout interactions and put them on in our social settings.
Our flash mob we did as a class was successful in a sense that we put on different faces that we are normal to and went outside our normal selves. When we were doing the bird calls we stepped out of our box and participated in something strange to our everyday lives. This embarrassment did not only occur within us, the ones participating but also a sort of embarrassment in the surrounding people. I would honestly say that it was much easier doing it within the class and if I were to do that individually I would not have been able to participate because it would have been too embarrassing. There were different reactions to the group of people around me to the bird calls. One group was actually trying to study and eventually got up to leave because of the noise that was being made, which I sort of felt bad about but it was an interesting reaction. When the calls started getting frequent there was a humorous side to what we were doing and people eventually accepted it and thought that it was amusing to hear these odd noises. Some were disturbed by the occurrences and did not know how to react to the racket that was being made. I myself was severely embarrassed though throughout the calls because it was stepping out of my normal face and was foreign territory to me. Even though I am a pretty goofy individual within my social sphere, acting that way among complete strangers was difficult because they did not actually know me as a person and I was feeling like these certain people were judging me as a nuisance and different. I will honestly say that I did not do the call as loud as I could have because of the shear fact that it was different. Others may not have done a call because they were too embarrassed and that they would not be accepted. I realized that after the experiment that I would not know any of the people around me after that interaction and that it was silly to be so shy about it because I really should not worry about how people think of me because I am who I am.
I do not believe this was a full-fledged flash mob because we were not identified as a group and merely individuals who were making noises. The dramaturgical experiences and performances that Goffman speaks of were seen because the embarrassment that we were forced to was broken due to the participation.
Our flash mob we did as a class was successful in a sense that we put on different faces that we are normal to and went outside our normal selves. When we were doing the bird calls we stepped out of our box and participated in something strange to our everyday lives. This embarrassment did not only occur within us, the ones participating but also a sort of embarrassment in the surrounding people. I would honestly say that it was much easier doing it within the class and if I were to do that individually I would not have been able to participate because it would have been too embarrassing. There were different reactions to the group of people around me to the bird calls. One group was actually trying to study and eventually got up to leave because of the noise that was being made, which I sort of felt bad about but it was an interesting reaction. When the calls started getting frequent there was a humorous side to what we were doing and people eventually accepted it and thought that it was amusing to hear these odd noises. Some were disturbed by the occurrences and did not know how to react to the racket that was being made. I myself was severely embarrassed though throughout the calls because it was stepping out of my normal face and was foreign territory to me. Even though I am a pretty goofy individual within my social sphere, acting that way among complete strangers was difficult because they did not actually know me as a person and I was feeling like these certain people were judging me as a nuisance and different. I will honestly say that I did not do the call as loud as I could have because of the shear fact that it was different. Others may not have done a call because they were too embarrassed and that they would not be accepted. I realized that after the experiment that I would not know any of the people around me after that interaction and that it was silly to be so shy about it because I really should not worry about how people think of me because I am who I am.
I do not believe this was a full-fledged flash mob because we were not identified as a group and merely individuals who were making noises. The dramaturgical experiences and performances that Goffman speaks of were seen because the embarrassment that we were forced to was broken due to the participation.