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Date Posted: 12:24:49 03/13/05 Sun
Author: Kendra
Subject: Goffman's Theory vs. James' Theory

As I was reading the first chapter of Goffman, William James' theory of Social Selves continued to enter my mind. He even has an exerpt form James' theory in this chapter. Since I am a Psychology major this may be why I had this in my mind, but if you compare the two they are very similar. James' theory states that we act differently when we are with different people. He thinks that we have as many social selves as there are people who know us. We have different nicknames that we respond to for different people, our behavior is different according to who we are interacting with, i.e. parents, friends, teachers, etc. This theory is fairly consistent with Goffman's theory of performances and actions being different depending on who the audience is.

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