Erving Goffman’s reputation as a cynic stems from his text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, which portrays the self as a manipulative confidence trickster. However, matters are more complicated than they first appear. There are two versions of the text, one published in 1956, the other in 1959, and Goffman’s revisions to the latter quietly challenge the cynicism of the former. Focussing on these revisions makes the text look rather different. Goffman has two voices in The Presentation of Self and the aim of this paper is to allow each to be heard
Erving Goffman’s work is often employed within Disability Studies. However, in Canada and the UK, m...
The purpose of this article is to present, develop and exemplify the argument that Erving Goffman ...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
Erving Goffman\u27s reputation as a cynic stems from his text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday ...
Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the ...
As a sociological perspective, dramaturgy takes seriously the similarities between life and theatre....
There are two ways of reading Goffman-as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a...
Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part per...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
Erving Goffman was born on 11 June 1922 in Alberta, Canada. He received his bachelor’s degree from t...
There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman’s founding statement of his sociology ...
Despite aversion to famedom, idolatry and cults of intellectual celebrity, Erving Goffman was one of...
Erving Goffman's distinctive contribution to an understanding of others was grounded in his informat...
This paper presents some of the implications of the theatrical metaphor throughout which Erving Goff...
The Goffmanian thesis of stigma occurring as an aspect of “spoiled identity” has arguably provided t...
Erving Goffman’s work is often employed within Disability Studies. However, in Canada and the UK, m...
The purpose of this article is to present, develop and exemplify the argument that Erving Goffman ...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
Erving Goffman\u27s reputation as a cynic stems from his text, The Presentation of Self in Everyday ...
Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the ...
As a sociological perspective, dramaturgy takes seriously the similarities between life and theatre....
There are two ways of reading Goffman-as a theorist of trust and ritual accommodation, that is, as a...
Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part per...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...
Erving Goffman was born on 11 June 1922 in Alberta, Canada. He received his bachelor’s degree from t...
There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman’s founding statement of his sociology ...
Despite aversion to famedom, idolatry and cults of intellectual celebrity, Erving Goffman was one of...
Erving Goffman's distinctive contribution to an understanding of others was grounded in his informat...
This paper presents some of the implications of the theatrical metaphor throughout which Erving Goff...
The Goffmanian thesis of stigma occurring as an aspect of “spoiled identity” has arguably provided t...
Erving Goffman’s work is often employed within Disability Studies. However, in Canada and the UK, m...
The purpose of this article is to present, develop and exemplify the argument that Erving Goffman ...
This paper investigates how the fashionable and glamorised appearance of an individual can be constr...