Module three paper assignment

You need to do two paper assignments in the course. If you choose this one, it is due at the end of module three.

Instructions you will need to turn in a five page paper that has the following parts:

First, find a situation where people are engaged in face to face interaction. It will be the data for your dramaturgical analysis. The situation may be one that you observe in your everyday life or it may be fictional (i.e., an interaction described in a novel, or enacted in a play, movie, sit-com). Given that you will be looking at emotions, you might want to write about one of your own recent experiences. The situation should not, however, be one that you have imagined for the sake of this assignment. It should not be a composite of many interactions. Making up a hypothetical example will result in a weaker paper. I.e., a paper that is not clearly based on an actual interaction will not receive a grade greater than 90/100. Briefly introduce this interaction. You will analyze it in more detail in the next section. (less than one page)

Second, analyze the emotion work that is done during the situation. What are the feeling rules for the situation? What are the consequences for not living up to the feeling rules? What sort of emotion work do the participants (including you) engage in to influence their emotions to meet the feeling rules? What do they think about? Do they help each other manage their emotions? Be as detailed and specific as possible. You might be tempted to write a three page paper. But there are a number of details for you to describe. A short paper is a weak paper and will be graded accordingly. A four page paper might also be a weak paper, of course.

Third, what is the value of this sort of analysis? How, concretely, could a person use this type of analysis? A person could answer this question in a sentence or two. But it would not be a very good answer. Think this answer through: how could this type of analysis is used, specifically. Who could benefit and how could they benefit?

Formatting:

For citations, use APA style. Go with a 12 point Times New Roman font. Double spaced with one inch margins. Each of the subsections of the paper should get its own sub-heading to organize your paper and improve its readability.