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backstage: a standalone construct

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backstage1 CONSTRUCTBack regionGOFFMAN · BACK REGION

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Sociology

the space, out of the audience's view, where a performer steps out of character and drops the front.

In Goffman's dramaturgical sociology, the back region or backstage is the space, relative to a given performance, where the performer steps out of character, drops the front presented to the audience, prepares, and relaxes, as a waiter does on passing from dining room to kitchen. In The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life it is defined functionally against the front region where the performance is given, not as any fixed room. The referent is a zone of social interaction defined by the absence of the audience for whom the front is maintained, and it is a different construct from a theatre's literal backstage, sharing only the borrowed word.[1]

Unit
A region of interaction where a performer is off-audience and out of role
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by where front-region impression management is relaxed relative to a given audience

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dramaturgy2 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, two systemspresentation2 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, two constructsaudience3 fields · 7 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs

References

  1. Goffman, E. (1990). The presentation of self in everyday life. Penguin Books. (Original work published 1959) ISBN 9780140135718

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