Practise

1. Goffman’s concept of ‘framing’ refers to ______.

a. how police may target potential suspects

b. how artists frame their pictures

c. how a setting is defined by its participants

d. all of these

e. None of these

Ans: C – how a setting is defined by its participants. Goffman's approach is based on the idea that making sense of social situations is done by constructing meaning through frames of understanding.