How did they try to idealize, or negatively idealize themselves? Moreover, your paper should reveal how they did all this in the context of both the real and imagined (or explicit and implicit) expectations of Western culture (assuming the subjects are, in fact, Westerners or Westernized people). For instance, how did the people you observed deal with the fact that they were culturally expected to create a unique self when they could really only conjure up a vision of a type of person? Describe Goffman’s concepts accurately and use them to illustrate and analyze your social interactions.
