Is social life just one big performance in which we are all individual actors? Sub-questions: What is a “real” act versus a phony act? “What are the ways in which a given impression can be discredited?” (pg. 62) Are legitimate performances of everyday life “acted?” Goffman believes not. “The legitimate performances of everyday life are [...]
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Keywords: blumer • contemporary sociology • erving goffman • george herbert mead • Sociology • symbolic interaction
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