Erving Goffman
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Sep 25, 2026
Amy ArthurNARRATOR
For me, and for those who've been studying how we relate to artificial beings, it's hard not to wonder if this increasingly normal mode of interacting will change what we're like in the rest of our lives.
Amy ArthurNARRATOR
In a study published last year, the sociologists Ashley Harrell and Margaret Traeger tested whether people's interactions with artificial agents might spill over into those they have with humans.
Amy ArthurNARRATOR
They conducted two experiments with more than 4,000 participants.
Amy ArthurNARRATOR
In each study, the participants played a simple online cooperation game with what they thought was either a bot or another human being.
Darryl CooperGUEST
Every day you encounter a society that is clearly more refined and more advanced than you're competent to operate in successfully.
Darryl CooperGUEST
And you run into these problems where you're sort of... you know, your, your, uh, your lack of ritual competence to put it in like an Irving Goffman, you know, sociological framework, your lack of ritual competence, you know, and by ritual, I just mean like the, the little ways that like we are able to, the little things that we do on a daily basis that, that make it, that, that, that grease the skids, the social skids, like in an urban world where we have to be confronted with and deal with strangers all the time, you know, um, there's just little rituals of how we make sure that we respect the other's dignity properly and we don't offend and do certain things.
Darryl CooperGUEST
And if you come from, you know, if you're like the Beverly hillbillies and you go out to Beverly Hills, like that's a comedic show.
Darryl CooperGUEST
But the reality is we have sort of examples like that.
RebeccaHOST
Today we're going to talk about frame theory.
RebeccaHOST
Let's just chat what Goffman discovered about the frame around every conversation.
RebeccaHOST
On the definition of the situation that decides what your words will count as, set before you speak, and usually not by you.
RebeccaHOST
Let's just chat, a manager says, dropping into the chair next to yours instead of the one across the desk.
RebeccaHOST
Rapport or evidence.
RebeccaHOST
Professional or over-familiar.
RebeccaHOST
Irving Goffman's name for the definition of the situation is a frame.
RebeccaHOST
A frame is the answer to what's going on here, not the words themselves.
Darryl CooperGUEST
That's the world you live in.
Darryl CooperGUEST
Every day you encounter a society that is clearly more refined and more advanced than your sort of, then you are competent to operate in successfully, you know, and you start, you, you, you run into the, you know, to these problems where you're sort of, you know, you know, your, your, uh, your lack of ritual competence to put it in like an Irving Goffman, you know, sociological framework, your lack of ritual competence, you know, and by ritual, I just mean like the, the little ways that like we are able to, the little things that we do on a daily basis that, that make it, that, that grease the skids, the social skids, like in an urban world where we have to be confronted with and deal with strangers all the time, you know, There's just little rituals of how we make sure that we respect the other's dignity properly and we don't offend and do certain things.
Darryl CooperGUEST
And if you come from, you know, if you're like the Beverly Hillbillies and you go out to Beverly Hills, like that's a comedic show.
Darryl CooperGUEST
But the reality is we have sort of examples like that.
John CampbellHOST
And at first, you think that some of the things you're seeing in the psychiatric hospital, and in those days, there were popular institutions.
John CampbellHOST
In fact, a guy called Goffman wrote a book about institutions, total institutions.
John CampbellHOST
And what happens in an institution is, Things that first look really, really weird.
John CampbellHOST
Of course, this is a psychiatric hospital, so you'd expect some weird stuff.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
Where Instagram, on the other hand, is popularizing and promoting trad wife or traditional wife, a hyper-traditional gender role for women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So, you know, it reminds me of Goffman's work on dramaturgy, where he mentioned the example of white girls.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
And during the dating, the white girls perform that they're weak in mathematics vis-a-vis their boyfriend, even though they are not.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So just to fit in the stereotype of women are as girlfriends and desirable.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
Where Instagram, on the other hand, is popularizing and promoting trad wife or traditional wife, a hyper-traditional gender role for women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So, you know, it reminds me of Goffman's work on dramaturgy, where he mentioned the example of white girls.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
And during the dating, the white girls perform that they're weak in mathematics vis-a-vis their boyfriend, even though they are not.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So just to fit in the stereotype of women or as girlfriends and desirable women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
Where Instagram, on the other hand, is popularizing and promoting trad wife or traditional wife, a hyper-traditional gender role for women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So, you know, it reminds me of Goffman's work on dramaturgy, where he mentioned the example of white girls.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
And during the dating, the white girls perform that they're weak in mathematics vis-a-vis their boyfriend, even though they are not.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So just to fit in the stereotype of women or as girlfriends and desirable women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
Where Instagram, on the other hand, is popularizing and promoting trad wife or traditional wife, a hyper-traditional gender role for women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So, you know, it reminds me of Goffman's work on dramaturgy, where he mentioned the example of white girls.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
And during the dating, the white girls perform that they're weak in mathematics vis-a-vis their boyfriend, even though they are not.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So just to fit in the stereotype of women or as girlfriends and desirable women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
Where Instagram, on the other hand, is popularizing and promoting trad wife or traditional wife, a hyper-traditional gender role for women.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So, you know, it reminds me of Goffman's work on dramaturgy, where he mentioned the example of white girls.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
And during the dating, the white girls perform that they're weak in mathematics vis-a-vis their boyfriend, even though they are not.
Pushpesh KumarGUEST
So just to fit in the stereotype of women or as girlfriends and desirable women.
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