Erving Goffman
Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
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Erving Goffman was a Canadian-American sociologist who studied how people behave and present themselves in everyday social situations, treating human interaction like a performance. His ideas fundamentally changed how sociologists understand social life, showing that people carefully manage how others perceive them much like actors performing roles on a stage.
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- 1922
- Died
- 1982
- Works
- 69
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- Presentation of Self
- Strategic interaction
- Asylums
- Frame analysis
- Asylums Essays on the Social Situation
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Erving Goffman (/ˈɡɒfmən/; 11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
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