The Presentation of Self in Everyday ..., Erving Goffman
The Presentation of Self in Everyday ..., Erving Goffman
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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Author: Erving Goffman

Narrator: Graham Halstead

Unabridged: 9 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 01/14/2020

Synopsis

Based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions, here is a notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves, using theatrical performance as a framework.

This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to others, attempts to guide and control the impressions they form of him, and employs certain techniques in order to sustain his performance, just as an actor presents a character to an audience.

About The Author

ERVING GOFFMAN was born in Canada in 1922. He received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949 and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual, and Stigma.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Rachel on August 26, 2017

explains in 250 pages why parties are terrible five stars now, five stars forever......more

Goodreads review by Roy on August 17, 2015

My favorite part of this book is the cover. The presentation of the book in everyday life. My second favorite part of this book is the author’s name, which is fun to say repeatedly in foreign accents. My third favorite part of this book was the body of the work itself, which is, indeed, brilliant, and......more

Goodreads review by Meike on July 16, 2021

Accessible sociology that is fun to read: Goffman looks at the roles we play and the ensembles we play them with, the costumes, texts and behaviors we employ, the audiences we want to influence as well as the stages we step on. His main accomplishment is to give these phenomena structure and to prov......more

Goodreads review by Julio on January 13, 2023

Some of you know me by my slave name "Julio Pino". When I was a house guest of the U.S. government the other fellows knew me by three identities, "Cuba", "Professor" and "Assad". There's also my nomme de demimonde "Planck" (alas, "Heisenberg" was already taken.) All this proves Erving Goffman's exis......more

Goodreads review by Cat on August 23, 2007

I'm not a student of sociology or psychology, but I can't seem to stay away from the work of Erving Goffman. This is the third book by Goffman that I've read (others: Stigma, Asylums). In this book, Goffman elucidates a "dramaturgical" theory of self, which he claims is an additional method of expla......more

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