The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life - Softcover

Goffman, Erving

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140135715 ISBN 13: 9780140135718

Verlag: Penguin, 1990

Inhaltsangabe

In what the General Practitioner called `this intelligent searching work', the author of `Stigma' and `Asylums' presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He 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.

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Biografía del autor

Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century. He was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Penguin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0140135715
• ISBN 13: 9780140135718
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 256