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Erving Goffman


Born
in Mannville, Alberta, Canada
June 11, 1922

Died
November 19, 1982

Genre

Influences


Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study Erving Goffman was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
Goffman was the 73rd president of the American Sociological Association. His best-known contribution to social theory is his study of symbolic interaction. This took the form of dramaturgical analysis, beginning with his 1956 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Goffman's other major works include Asylums (1961), Stigma (1963), Interaction Ritual (1967), Frame Analysis (1974), and Forms of Talk (1981). His major areas of study included the sociology of everyday life, social interaction, the social construction of self, social organization (framing) of experience, and particular elements of social life such as total institutions and stigmas. ...more

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👁 The Presentation of Self in...
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👁 Stigma: Notes on the Manage...
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👁 Asylums: Essays on the Soci...
4.14 avg rating — 1,619 ratings — published 1961 — 69 editions
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👁 Interaction Ritual - Essays...
4.08 avg rating — 475 ratings — published 1967
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👁 Frame Analysis: An Essay on...
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3.99 avg rating — 350 ratings — published 1974 — 14 editions
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👁 Behavior in Public Places: ...
4.05 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1963 — 38 editions
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👁 Gender Advertisements
3.98 avg rating — 155 ratings — published 1979 — 11 editions
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👁 Forms of Talk
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👁 The Goffman Reader
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4.18 avg rating — 76 ratings — published 1997 — 7 editions
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👁 Relations in Public: Micros...
3.99 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1971 — 25 editions
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“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
― Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

“The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him different from us; at the same time he must keep himself at that remove from us which assures our painlessly being able to confirm this belief about him. Put differently, he is advised to reciprocate naturally with an acceptance of himself and us, an acceptance of him that we have not quite extended to him in the first place. A PHANTOM ACCEPTANCE is thus allowed to provide the base for a PHANTOM NORMALCY.”
― Erving Goffman, Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity

“Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”
― Erving Goffman

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