TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract This chapter reports on the interaction dynamics of a workplace exercise group for beginners. Dramaturgical stress occurred here as individuals who already knew each other as competent colleagues felt embarrassed about encountering one another in this low ability exercise group. To resolve this role conflict, participants sought to define themselves as familiar strangers (which they were not) through minimal interaction in non-binding relationships. This was achieved through three types of facework strategy: not only the defensive and protective kinds that Goffman identified as saving individual faces, but also collective strategies, which sought to repair the face of the whole group. Paradoxically, therefore, in attempting to deny their “groupness,” these actors actually displayed and reinforced their solidarity as a performance team.
VL  - 42
SN  - 978-1-78350-838-9, 978-1-78350-837-2/0163-2396
DO  - 10.1108/S0163-239620140000042009
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620140000042009
AU  - Rossing Hilde
AU  - Scott Susie
PY  - 2014
Y1  - 2014/01/01
TI  - Familiar Strangers: Facework Strategies in Pursuit of Non-Binding Relationships in a Workplace Exercise Group
T2  - Revisiting Symbolic Interaction in Music Studies and New Interpretive Works
T3  - Studies in Symbolic Interaction
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 161
EP  - 183
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -