According to Erving Goffman, People Define Situations Interactionally Through Expressions

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Essay

According to Erving Goffman, people define situations interactionally through expressions of behavior, which are the tools we use to project our definition of a situation to one another. Explain what Goffman means by expressions given and expressions given off.

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Definitions:

Dividends

Profits given by a corporation to its shareholders as a distribution.

ROE

Return on Equity, a profitability ratio that measures the amount of net income returned as a percentage of shareholders' equity.

Plowback Ratio

The proportion of earnings that a company reinvests into its business rather than distributing to shareholders as dividends, indicating its growth strategy.

ROE

Return on Equity, a measure of financial performance calculated by dividing net income by shareholder's equity, indicating how well a company uses investments to generate earnings growth.