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.
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…
- 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
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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… - Erving Goffman
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…
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.
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives. - Erving Goffman
The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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