There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his o… - Erving Goffman
Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on his o…
- Erving Goffman
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 al… - Erving Goffman
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 al…
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect ar… - Erving Goffman
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect ar…
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In s… - Erving Goffman
A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one and only reality. In s…
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face. - Erving Goffman
Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives. - Erving Goffman
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shrivel… - Erving Goffman
There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shrivel…
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity. - Erving Goffman
Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we re… - Erving Goffman
Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we re…
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