In dramaturgy, an individual is distinguished as an actor playing a role that puts on a “performance.” In this performance the actors follow a script, act on a stage and used props. In Erving Goffman’s concept of the dramatic metaphor first seen in The Presentation of Self in Every Day Life used the idea of the stage and theater in relation to social interactions. 289).īy participating in the ritual activities of the punk rock subculture I will learn to understand the dynamics of their group structure first hand as I participate and engage in the same social interactions as and perceive the world as the see it. Traditional ethnographers believe in immersing themselves in a particular culture and reporting their informants’ stores as if they represent reality, phenomenologist see a need to “make sense” out of the informants’ perceptions of the world (Babbie, 2002, p. Also I will compare this concert to other concerts and point of what social punk rock types attend what specific show. I also paid attention to the areas of the venue where these people interacted this also helps determine what social type they fall into. With in my own group we began to name each of the punk rock social types that each of the actors in this setting played. At this show I paid attention to behavior of the individuals and what roles they played, I watched how the individuals interacted with one another. Recently I went to see the band Strung Out, a punk-metal band from Southern California. In this paper I will illustrate the types of people at a certain type of concert, we are going to take a look at the punk rock culture and distinguish the types of people who go to these concerts and interpret their rolls “at the show”. It has been about six years since that first concert, since them I have seen many genre’ of music ranging from mellow jazz to the heaviest of metal each type of music has its different types of people as well as different unique types of people who go to each type of concert. After the show was all over I wanted more, I wanted to go to as many concerts as possible and experience all types of music. ![]() People in the pit area went ballistic and went into motion with the music, people in the theater style seating “head banged” and danced but kept to them selves. When the music began the place came alive. The inside of the Agora was set up like an old theater, there was theater style seating and closer to the stage was a floor area know as the “pit.” Back then I really did not pay very much attention to the crowd my main concern was the band I paid to see. Upon arriving to the venue it seemed broken down and in a bad part of town, we entered the place and I notice the audience was very much like me, young white teenagers, some of them had on band paraphernalia of not only the band they were about to see but other heavy metal and other assorted rock bands as well as shirts that read “I am a math magician”. My mother did not make the issue any better she worried and wanted to know who I was going with and what time I was going to be home. ![]() I was a little bit scared I did not want a black eye or a broken arm. The first time I went to a concert I was not sure what to expect: I was excited because they were one of my favorite bands at the time. My first concert was around my 11 th grade year, I was 17 years old and Korn was an up and coming metal band. Here is a participant observation paper I wrote in the summer of 2001 as a sociology independent study for one of my favorite professors, James J. ![]() There are many reasons I became a sociologist, I wanted to better understand people, politics, and culture, but mostly, I love people watching! While a college student, I went to many concerts, I loved mostly punk and ska bands and observed how people interacted at these shows.
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