A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to othe
From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person’s feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society fo
Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman. From his first book, The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life (1956), to his last, For