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Face (sociological concept)

About: Face (sociological concept) is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 5171 publications have been published within this topic receiving 96109 citations. The topic is also known as: Lose face & Face (sociological concept).


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TL;DR: The authors discusses the implications of a concept of strategy for dialogical perspectives on communication and explores the paradox of Habermas's idea of communicative rationality in terms of the prisoner's dilemma of game theory.
Abstract: This essay discusses the implications of a concept of strategy for dialogical perspectives on communication. It begins by locating in the dialogical perspective a “longing for the other” that equates communication with communion or mutuality. It draws from the theory of communicative action of Jurgen Habermas to discuss strategy as the “other” of communication and explores the paradox of Habermas’s idea of communicative rationality in terms of the prisoner’s dilemma of game theory. The essay considers the extent to which the strategic and the dialogic are woven together in communication and argues that the communicative orientations of interlocutors at any given instance are rightfully regarded as the product of situational logics conditioned by social and cultural commitments extant in that instance. Given that the impetus for strategy stems in part from concerns about social solidarity in the face of the exigences of everyday life, the essay concludes by directing attention to the interplay of the management of social fears and the expression of otherness in shaping the course of communicative encounters.

24 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the gains and losses of face as perceived by Chinese government officials during a three-week delegation visit to the United States of America were explored, where participants reflected on the day's events.

24 citations

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TL;DR: Through the analysis of conversational interaction and clinical notes, this article develops conceptual linkages between the Goffmanian concept of face and the psychoanalytic and psychiatric understandings of narcissism.
Abstract: Through the analysis of conversational interaction and clinical notes, this article develops conceptual linkages between the Goffmanian concept of face and the psychoanalytic and psychiatric understandings of narcissism. Self-cathexis--the investment of libidinal emotion to the image of self--is a key issue both for Goffman and in psychoanalytic studies of narcissism. For Goffman, the self and its cathexis are inherently fragile interactional achievements, whereas for psychoanalysts such as Kernberg and Kohut, they are relatively stable intrapsychic structures. An application of Goffman's theory to narcissistic personality disorders suggests that pathological narcissism involves the isolation of the person's self-image from interactional. practices and a consequent inability to benefit from face work in ordinary social encounters. Clinical experience suggests revisions to the theory of face work: there is a biographical continuity in a person's experience of face, and successful participation in face work is made possible by the psychic capacity of playful orientation to one's own and others' narcissistic illusions. Such playful orientation is manifested through the interactional practices of role distancing.

24 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an ethnography of communication study details three themes (hard work, family, and religion) as relevant to the lives of Mexican American interlocutors in Biola, CA.
Abstract: This ethnography of communication study details three themes (hard work, family, and religion) as relevant to the lives of Mexican American interlocutors in Biola, CA. The project entailed four summers of participant observations and 43 formal interviews (that is, 1993 1996, June August) with additional informal chats and observations taken at other times of the year. The conclusions of the study demonstrate how the role of family and religion serve as unifying forces despite the economic struggles that so many of the families face in this small, agricultural community.

24 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20248
20235,478
202212,139
2021284
2020199
2019207