The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Volume 10Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 20 de mai. de 1959 - 259 páginas In this classic book published in 1959, Goffman analyses interpersonal interaction and how individuals 'perform' in order to project a desirable image. When a person is conscious of being observed by an audience one will observe certain rules and social conventions, as failing to do so means losing face and failing to project the image/persona they wish to create. The person's behaviour will be different in a private environment, however, as no performance is necessary. This performance as ?self presentation?, considering that it provides us with a way to form new identities and thus convince ourselves we become an enhanced person. One of Goffman's key arguments is that individuals have both expressions that they give and those that they give off. In the case of the former, impressions that the individual intends to produce are communicated, but with the latter, impressions that were not intended to be given are received by the audience. People try to manage the impressions they give-off in order to ?fit in? to society. Goffman also considered more-established metaphors such as the mask as a means for deception in face-to-face interaction. |
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... projected definition of the situation also has a distinctive moral character . It is this moral character of projections that will chiefly concern us in this report . Society is organized on the principle that any individual who pos ...
... projected definition of the situation also has a distinctive moral character . It is this moral character of projections that will chiefly concern us in this report . Society is organized on the principle that any individual who pos ...
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... projected definitions , we may also note that an intense interest in these disruptions comes to play a significant role in the social life of the group . Practi- cal jokes and social games are played in which embarrass- ments which are ...
... projected definitions , we may also note that an intense interest in these disruptions comes to play a significant role in the social life of the group . Practi- cal jokes and social games are played in which embarrass- ments which are ...
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... projected . This difference forces an acutely em- barrassing wedge between the official projection and reality , for it is part of the official projection that it is the only possible one under the circumstances . Perhaps , then , we ...
... projected . This difference forces an acutely em- barrassing wedge between the official projection and reality , for it is part of the official projection that it is the only possible one under the circumstances . Perhaps , then , we ...
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix | 1 |
PERFORMANCES | 17 |
TEAMS | 77 |
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