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Soci reading response

Tutorial reading 2: Meanwhile backstage: Behavior. in public bathrooms.

Questions: 1) In what ways does this reading help you make sense of a social situation or issue sociologically?

2) How do you present and manage yourself at a public toilet or a changing room? Reflect upon your own experiences with reference to what you have learnt from Cahill’s reading and lecture

The first question is about what you have learnt from the text. Instead of summarizing every bit and piece from the reading, you should focus on introducing how the author approaches and understands a social situation or issue sociologically. You can consider the following when writing this part: a. What is the social situation or issue discussed in the reading? b. How does the author investigate and explain the social situation or issue? The second question encourages you to reflect upon how the insights from assigned reading can help you make sense of your experiences in daily life.

In tutorial session 2 Spencer Cahill et al. presented a micro-sociological idea about Goffman’s dramaturgy in terms of Individuals having both frontstage and backstage selves through the study of individual’s interactions in bathroom, a place that function as backstage. This essay will examine how the authors utilize the context of bathrooms to reflect a sociological issue and drawing connections with my own experiences.

The authors analyzed their observations on individual’s behaviors in the bathroom and uncovered Goffman’s dramaturgy to interpret these refrained behaviors and the performances designed to manage impressions. The authors then introduced five interpersonal rituals in the bathroom that individuals interact with each other to maintain their social persona, these rituals are grouped into positive side and negative side. The authors provided a conversational example to address that positive interpersonal rituals in the bathroom occur due to acquaintance, this type of rituals includes interactions such as, greetings or short conversations. Those behaviors of positive rituals can infer the social situations of how individuals maintain social connection with others and manage a friendly impression to others that’s socially desired to adhere to social norms and social expectations. Reflecting on my own experience, when I was in boarding school and whenever I meet someone, I know in the bathroom I will smile at them or say “hi” to them to maintain my social bonds with them. On the other hand, since our social norms shaped our perspective on how people should interact with different kinds of people, if I’ve met an acquainted people in the bathroom and avoid interaction with them, they will feel not be respected and may cause a breakdown of a relationship. Thus, those positive rituals in the bathroom are ordered by our social norms and people will instinctively behavior. in such manner.

 Another interesting positive ritual mentioned in the reading is self-effacing humor, which describes an individual’s self-derogatory reaction towards undesirable odor and sounds in the bathroom. This ritual demonstrates how an individual adopts a humorous tact to regain control of the social interaction after an unexpected embarrassment and inform. us that humor is an important tool in our daily social life to navigate awkward situations of social interactions.

Furthermore, the authors explained negative rituals that also reflect social situations and how our interactions are underlyingly controlled by social norms. The authors unveiled occasions when an individual acknowledges one another’s presence but without engagement, and this is known as civil inattention, and occasion when an individual treat other as insignificant, known as the non-person treatment. Those negative rituals inform. hidden rules of social interaction in terms of how people are giving each other privacies for their backstage settings while also shows that social norms guide people to perform. isolation under such a sensitive place.

In addition, “sacredness” is a central value in the maintenance of social order hence, many behaviors in the bathroom are related to this value. For example, handwashing after defecation underlines cleanliness and handwashing can be understand as an act for individuals intending to present an idealized impression of being ‘clean’ to others by adhering to the social norm. Personally, when I notice people who do not handwash after defecation I will attribute them with insanitary and have some negative impression on them. After learning Cahill’s reading and had the lecture, I’ve gained insight to explain this and my bad impressions on those people is because they didn’t attain social expectation of keeping hygiene.

Moreover, this reading reflects social issue of gender role expectation. The authors illustrate this issue by comparing men and women’s behaviors in the bathroom, women go bathrooms to comb their hair, rearrange their clothing while this is uncommon for men. Hence, this can show that in our society women are often expected to publicly present a more extensively managed fronts than male. Additionally, I’ve noticed that my brother always has to wait for me in front of the public bathroom when we go inside bathrooms at the same time, and this is because girls use this ‘backstage’ for a longer time to groom and fix different parts of themselves to preserve their ‘frontstage’ because our society expects girls to be more delicate.

Those rituals are all hold by central values and social norms, which is the same for people’s daily interactions.