Although this may be true, people need to carefully control the information that others receive about them, in a process called impression management. …show more content…
But impression management isn’t merely a matter of what you say and don’t say. It’s also a matter of what you wear and what you do too.
That is to say, it’s a matter of what Goffman referred to as referred to as “Expressions Given”, also known as props, which are verbal and/or other symbols that the individual uses to express information, and “Expressions Given Off”, also known as nonverbal which consist of body language and other actions that the body does, which can be interpreted by others as symptomatic or nonsymptomatic expressions of the individual who is giving them