• On p.106 the author brings up time boundaries. Could time boundaries be included in region?—SM

• On page 106 and at the bottom of 108 Goffman talks about standards and saturation of regions and regional characteristics. When you arrived at wabash, coming from your regions: your hometowns, high schools, neighborhoods etc. did you guys realize immediate differences between the "standards" of your new surroundings? when you've traveled?—LK

• If you agree with what Goffman says about the 3 "stages" of social life (begins page 107), doesn't that imply that our social lives are manipulative and self centered?—RA

• In class, according to this text, we are all "performers" and we all have "standards". Would we have different standards if we had a different professor?women in our class? pg 108—PJI

• On page 108, we have the passages "An audience can subject an entire front region to a continuous inspection as regards decorum...none or only a few of the performers may be obliged to talk to the audience and hence to demonstrate politeness. Performers can stop giving expressions but cannot stop giving them off." What does this mean? If it means something, is it true?—KM

• p109 paragraph two. Why do you guys think rules are often much more narrow and confined in the work place than in what we often deem "sacred places"? Our appearance must always be appropriate, but in work related places one must always be following seemingly much stricter rules than in other areas that can more often be deemed more important to a person's life and commitments?—KW

• On p. 109, the author talks about the fact that you act differently in church than you do, for example, working as a salesman. He states that in church you are permitted to doze off or daydream, but at work you must keep alert at all times. Why do you guys think that we, in general, don't act the same in church as we do working our jobs?—RS

• What do you make of Goffman saying women are never really themselves around men? 113—BH

• My question comes from page 137-the middle. Goffman writes about how the performer segregates his audiences. Berger wrote about how society has the ability to shape our personalities. I am interested in discussing how our roles shape us. Do we become more or less like the people we pretend to be? What determines the extent of this transformation?—CD

• The reading was a very difficult read for me. Was the author relating to society to a theatre, such a a backstage and front stage? Back room, front room? Just kind of a general question, but a page would be the bottom of 137.—SC

• The author gives many of examples throughout the chapter of when people change their behavior between a front and back stage, but what happens when someone doesn't change their behavior?—JB