is a research approach that examines social interaction as if occurring on a stage where people play different roles and act out scenes for the audiences with whom they interact.

Dramaturgical analysis  is a research approach that examines social interaction as if occurring on a stage where people play different roles and act out scenes for the audiences with whom they interact.

Explanation:

Sociologists such as Erving Goffman believed that the actions takes by people in different life perspectives represent the scenes of just a actor playing a role in a play. Dramaturgical analysis tend to understand the activities of everyday occurring situations in a man's life resembling to the performance of an actor on a stage.

This study believes that every person's life is like the different series of performances which the actors play.