Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
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He argued that all of us are actors managing impressions, that asylums strip identity, that stigma is social machinery. His dramaturgical lens — everyday life as performance — reshaped how sociology reads human behavior.
Erving Goffman was born in Canada in 1922 and became an American sociologist whose work on symbolic interaction redefined the field. In 1956 he published The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, introducing dramaturgical analysis: the idea that social life is theater, each of us constantly performing and managing how others see us. Over the next twenty-five years he extended that vision into asylums, stigma, interaction rituals, and the frames through which experience gets organized — always dissecting the subtle mechanics of selfhood and social control. He served as the 73rd president of th…
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For over a decade now in the literature of social psychology there has been good work on stigma - the situation of the individual who is disqualified from full social acceptance.
In our society, defecation involves an individual in activity which is defined as inconsistent with the cleanliness and purity standards expressed in many of our performances.
Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
But, When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones.
In this essay I want to review some work on stigma, especially some popular work, to see what it can yield for sociology.
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