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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Paperback - 1959

by Erving Goffman


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Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.

This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience.

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A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

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  • Title The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
  • Author Erving Goffman
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Anchor Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1959-05-20
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • ISBN 9780385094023 / 0385094027
  • Weight 0.46 lbs (0.21 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.02 x 5.32 x 0.57 in (20.37 x 13.51 x 1.45 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Social psychology, Social role
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 59-9138
  • Dewey Decimal Code 302.5

About the author

ERVING GOFFMAN was born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual, and Stigma
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