Until recently, to be in a "public place" meant to feel safe. That has changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to quickly react to gestural cues from persons in their immediate presence in order to establish their relationship...
La sociedad establece los medios para categorizar a las personas y a sus atributos corrientes y naturales. Al encontrarnos frente a un extraño, las primeras apariencias nos permiten prever en qué categoría se halla y cuál es...
"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual , a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events whic...
An verblüffenden Beispielen zeigt der Soziologe Goffman in diesem Klassiker das »Theater des Alltags«, die Selbstdarstellung, wie wir alle im sozialen Kontakt, oft nicht einmal bewußt, sie betreiben, vor Vorgesetzten oder...
Erving Goffman will influence the thinking and perceptions of generations to come. In Frame Analysis, the brilliant theorist writes about the ways in which people determine their answers to the questions âWhat is going on here?â...
"The broad topic is communication directed specifically to situations like espionage and to situations like international politics. . Goffman deals with the topic descriptively, draws on a wide variety of sources, and uses analogy to demonstrate,...