| Term Paper Title | Different Roles |
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| # of Pages (250 words per page double spaced) | 3.31 |
Different Roles
February 16, 2003
Human Comm
People have many different roles they play in their daily lives. Personally, I play many roles that include roommate, boyfriend, student, son, sibling and friend, just to name a few. I act different and perform as a different character in each one of these roles. For instance, I act all sweet and cuddly around my girlfriend, but I would not act the same around my parents or roommate. They would think I was weirdo for kissing and hugging them like I do to my girlfriend. When I am in class, I have to watch what I say, I try to use words that make me sound smarter and always try to say the best thing on topic. When I am around my family or friends, I don’t have that burden of making sure I don’t sound stupid. My friends are not assessing me on my actions like a teacher would. Personally, acting different is somewhat of a comfort issue to me at times. I feel more comfortable acting a certain way in different everyday settings by putting on different “masks.”
Every person more or less lives a public existence throughout his or her life. The “reflected or looking glass self” is what people think of themselves in their public appearance and how they are perceived. The three principle elements of the “reflected or looking glass self” are the imagination of our appearance to the other person, the imagination of his judgment of that appearance and some self-feeling. I do not know exactly what other people think of me, but I can kind of gauge what they think of me by their reactions and gestures.
Humans are always seeking recognition, which in turn makes us these stage actors in a way. We act certain ways for a reason. People lead a dual existence, with a private and public life. We have the life we want to live, by expressing ourselves and acting simply. We also have this other life were we need to act proper and appropriate to a certain occasion and control impulses. A young child does not worry what people think of him. The child screams and yells until he gets what h...Read entire document
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