Interaction Ritual¶
Goffman, E. (1967). Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior. Anchor.
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Primes¶
- Collective Effervescence
This sourceDemonstrates that everyday face-to-face interaction is fundamentally ritualistic (face-work, deference, demeanor), maintaining social order through micro-ritual.
- Pragmatic Politeness Strategies
- Speakers navigate face-threat through five super-strategies arranged on a directness continuum:
This sourceGoffman demonstrates that everyday interaction is fundamentally ritualistic, with prescribed turn-taking, face-work, and staged presentation maintaining social order.
- Speakers navigate face-threat through five super-strategies arranged on a directness continuum:
- Ritual
- Goffman 1959/1967 interaction ritual work shows how even everyday interactions like conversation are rituals that maintain social order through formalized taking of turns, face-work, and staged presentation
This sourceGoffman demonstrates that everyday interaction is fundamentally ritualistic, with prescribed turn-taking, face-work, and staged presentation maintaining social order.
- Goffman 1959/1967 interaction ritual work shows how even everyday interactions like conversation are rituals that maintain social order through formalized taking of turns, face-work, and staged presentation
Mechanisms¶
- Face-Saving Exit Script
- It works on the face-work
This sourceDefines face-work as the ritual activity by which participants preserve socially claimed face during interaction.
- It works on the face-work
- Norm Reminder and Private Warning
- By preserving the drifter's face — the social value they claim in the interaction
This sourceDefines face as the positive social value a person claims in an interaction.
- By preserving the drifter's face — the social value they claim in the interaction
- Off-Ramp Offer Protocol
- The subject takes an early off-ramp not because the pressure grew unbearable but because stopping had become a path they could walk without being destroyed.
This sourceDescribes gracious withdrawal as an interactional practice that allows a participant to leave without loss of face.
- The subject takes an early off-ramp not because the pressure grew unbearable but because stopping had become a path they could walk without being destroyed.
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