How to Explain Facework?

The material of the outside or front side, as of a wall or building. (sociology, psychology) The communicative strategies involved in upholding face, or social prestige. (mining) Work done at the face, such as the coalface.

What is Facework?

Facework reflects the communication strategies that people use to establish, sustain, or restore a preferred social identity to others during interaction. ... Importantly, one's face is not a label given by others; it is an identity selected by an individual to be presented to others.

What is Facework in psychology?

n. 1. in social interactions, a set of strategic behaviors by which people attempt to maintain both their own dignity (“face”) and that of the people with whom they are dealing.