The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1st Edition
$36.66
- Paperback
272 pages
- Release Date
20 May 1959
Summary
Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustai…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780385094023 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0385094027 |
| Author: | Erving Goffman |
| Publisher: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc |
| Imprint: | Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 272 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 20 May 1959 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 15mm |
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About The Author
Erving Goffman
ERVING GOFFMANwas born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffmanis the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. Heis also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual,and Stigma
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