Goffman

Embarrassment and Social Organization

• “An individual may recognize extreme embarrassment in others and even in himself by the objective signs of emotional disturbance:
• blushing
• fumbling
• stuttering
• low- or high-pitched voice
• quavering speech or breaking of the voice
• sweating
• blanching
• blinking
• tremor of the hand
• hesitating or vacillating movement
• absentmindedness
• malapropisms” (Goffman & Best, 2005)
• At this time, get students to volunteer to come to the front and visually act out showing the class what each of these terms means
• After the student acts out the term, have the student go into the hall and wait (students who act terms will gather in hall)
• After all the “actors” have gathered in the hall [click here]