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Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
Apr 30, 2024 · Erving Goffman (born June 11, 1922, Manville, Alta., Can.—died Nov. 19, 1982, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.) was a Canadian-American sociologist noted for his studies of face-to-face communication and related rituals of social interaction.
Oct 24, 2019 · Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was a major Canadian-American sociologist who played a significant role in the development of modern American sociology.
Dec 7, 2021 · Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was “arguably the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century” (Fine & Manning, 2003, p. 34). This summary will outline one of his earliest works – The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, originally published in 1956.
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a 1956 sociological book by Erving Goffman, in which the author uses the imagery of theatre to portray the importance of human social interaction. This approach became known as Goffman's dramaturgical analysis.
Aug 28, 2019 · Goffman introduced the notion of impression management and developed his dramaturgical perspective in ingenious ways. Outlines six dramaturgical “principles”: performances, teams, regions and region behavior, discrepant roles, communication out of character, and the arts of impression management.
The first part of this chapter reviews Goffman’s intellectual context in terms of the dramaturgical model and its significance in Goffman’s work overall. The second part compared dramaturgy to ethnomethodology before turning to the work after Goffman, particularly the signaling theory championed by Diego Gambetta.
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