Compare and contrast the two quotes, including relevant concepts, and theoretical orientation.

Compare and contrast the two quotes, including relevant concepts, and theoretical orientation. What do the two quotes have in common? How are they different? Overall, do you see the quotes as more similar, or more different? How so?

QUOTE 1

“The legitimate performances of everyday life are not ‘acted’ or ‘put on’ in the sense that the performer knows in advance just what he is going to do, and does this solely because of the effect it is likely to have. The expressions it is felt he is giving off will be especially ‘inaccessible’ to him. But as in the case of less legitimate performers, the incapacity of the ordinary individual to formulate in advance the movements of his eyes and body does not mean that he will not express himself through these devices in a way that is dramatized and pre-formed in his repertoire of actions” (Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, in Appelrouth and Edles, p. 562).

QUOTE 2

“It should, however, be stressed that the symmetry between objective and subjective reality cannot be complete. The two realities correspond to each other, but they are not coextensive. There is always more objective reality ‘available’ than is actually internalized in any individual consciousness… No individual internalizes the totality of what is objectivated as reality in his society, not even if the society and its world are relatively simple ones. On the other hand, there are always elements of subjective reality that have not originated in socialization… The individual apprehends himself as being both inside and outside society. This implies that the symmetry between objective and subjective reality is never a static, once-for-all state of affairs. It must always be produced and reproduced in actu. In other words, the relationship between the individual and the objective social world is like an ongoing balancing act” (Berger and Luckmann, The Social Construction of Reality, in Appelrouth and Edles, p. 625).