The presentation of self in everyday life / Erving Goffman.
By: Goffman, Erving
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BookPublisher: Harmondsworth : Penguin, 1971Description: 251 p. ; 18 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 0140213503 .Subject(s): Self | Social psychologyDDC classification: 301.11
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent, searching work' the author of Stigma and Asylums shows us exactly how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job-situations; how they combine in teams resembling secret societies; and how they adopt discrepant roles and communicate out of character. Professor Goffman takes us 'backstage' too, into the regions where people both prepare their images and relax from them; and he demonstrates in painful detail what can happen when a performance falls flat. Book jacket.
Originally published, New York: Doubleday; London: Mayflower, 1959.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Preface (p. 9)
- Acknowledgements (p. 11)
- Introduction (p. 13)
- 1 Performances (p. 28)
- 2 Teams (p. 83)
- 3 Regions and Region Behaviour (p. 109)
- 4 Discrepant Roles (p. 141)
- 5 Communication out of Character (p. 166)
- 6 The Arts of Impression Management (p. 203)
- 7 Conclusion (p. 231)
- Index (p. 249)
Author notes provided by Syndetics
Erving Goffman, an American sociologist, received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago. He is known for his distinctive method of research and writing. He was concerned with defining and uncovering the rules that govern social behavior down to the minutest details. He contributed to interactionist theory by developing what he called the "dramaturgical approach," according to which behavior is seen as a series of mini-dramas.Goffman studied social interaction by observing it himself---no questionnaires, no research assistants, no experiments. The title of his first book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), became one of the themes of all of his subsequent research. He also observed and wrote about the social environment in which people live, as in his Total Institutions. He taught his version of sociology at the University of Pennsylvania; he died in 1983, the year in which he served as president of the American Sociological Association.
(Bowker Author Biography)