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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
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