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Chad Bass

By: Selina Huerta Selena Corona Yvette Aguirre Jennifer Padilla Michaela Reuben Jenny Hernandez

Chad’s self

Age: 18 years old. School: Seaside High School Ethnicity: Caucasian Athlete: Football player Religion: Catholic

Chad’s Story

The summer before senior year, Chad meets a guy named Rick at football summer camp. They are strangers at first, but quickly become friends. Throughout the weeks, Chad and Rick grow closer as they learn more about each other. After a night of heavy drinking, they find out they have a deeper connection. They begin to have a romance throughout the summer. Unable to deal with their feelings for each other, they part ways at the end of the

• summer. Chad is confused with his sexuality because he comes

from a religious family and is scared he will not be accepted by

• them. Throughout his senior year, he decides to hide his

sexuality and date a girl named Pam.

Dramaturgy: Identity/Self

Dramaturgy: “uses the theatrical performance as a metaphor to describe self-presentation strategies”. (Topic 9, PPT 14)

• Developed by Erving Gofgman.

Manner in which the self is presented is dependent on:

• Cultural values
• Norms and expectations
• Definition of the situation

Chad’s Situation: He lives in a traditional and religious household and is struggling to find his identity.

Frontstage: Both actor and audience are present. Convince audience of characteristics.

• Chad tries to portray masculinity and over present how “straight” he is.

He sees Rich at a game while he’s with his football team. Chad and Rich see each other, but Chad blows him ofg. Backstage: No audience is present.

• Chad struggles with his identity because he knows he has to put up a

front for everyone else, but when knows no one is looking he can be his true self.

Frontstage vs. backstage

Self, Shame and Guilt

• Self: “We are not only actors in this world we are objects
• f our own thinking of our acting” - Professor Harvey

Molotch

• Guilt: focuses on a specific behavior that affects others

not on what the other thinks of them - Professor June Tangney ○ YOU FEEL GUILT WHEN ONLY YOU KNOW ○ Confessing, apologizing, undoing.

Self, Shame and Guilt

• Shame: “large family of emotions which

include not only embarrassment and humiliation but also discretionary shame such as modesty,shyness, and conscience.” - scheff and retzinger ○ YOU FEEL SHAME WHEN OTHER PEOPLE KNOW WHAT YOU DID.

• tangney

https://youtu.be/W_gA5vkJJc4

Impression Management

Impression Management: is a conscious or subconscious process in which people attempt to influence the perceptions of other people about a person, object or event.(Topic 11)

• Developed by Erving Gofgman.

Chad’s situation: Chad takes many selfies, he uploads them to social media to show his masculinity and reach the expectations

• f his religious family therefore hiding

his true self.

• Alienation is a theoretical concept developed by Karl Marx

Chad's Situation 1 : Chad was always into social media , he wanted to share the best version of himself online , he created a persona on social media that consisted of unattainable standards and became addicted to the attention. Chad’s Situation 2 : When chad sees Rich at the game while he’s with his football team , the team notice a weird connection between them and started to make fun of him .

Alienation

Cognitive Dissonance

• Developed in the 20th century by

psychologist Leon Festinger

• Discomfort and tension caused by

conflicting ideas or behaviors

• Dissonance increased when subject is

important to us

• We seek consistency in our ideas and

actions

• Dissonance can be reduced in a few ways

Cognitive Dissonance

• Forced Compliance Behavior

○ Individual made to perform a behavior ○ Attitudes must be reevaluated ○ Chad’s act of dating Rich caused dissonance ○ Changed attitudes and begins dating Pam

• Decision-Making

○ Dissonance from two conflicting ideas ○ Decrease attractiveness of the alternative ○ Chad must make a decision to please his parents or himself ○ He can decrease the attractiveness of dating Rich to ease dissonance

• Efgort

○ Goals that require more efgort/time are valued more ○ Spend a long time on something, then evaluate it negatively causes dissonance ○ Chad spent a long time dating before he found someone he connected with, begins to evaluate it negatively

Conformity, Deindividuation

• Philip Zimbardo- when you’re part of a social collective

(group) it strips away one's sense of self and moral regulation and releases difgerent behavior, “deindividuation behavior”

• Deindividuation Behavior- tendency to lose sense of self,

guilt, shame, awareness and restraint when in groups so there’s no sense of responsibility

• Deviance & Conformity

○ Deviance - violation of social norms

○

Conformity - complying to standards, rules, or laws; behaving in accordance with socially accepted standards or norms

Conformity, Deindividuation

• Conformity is a form of peer pressure

○ Publicly- temporary, on the outside they agree with the group but internally they keep their own beliefs ○ Privately-changing behavior and opinions to align with the group

• Chad feels the need to conform to his family

and friends standards in order to be accepted, therefore he hides his feelings about Rick and his sexuality.