Erving GoffmanArticle Free Pass Erving Goffman, (born June 11,
1922, Manville, Alta., Can.—died Nov. 19, 1982, Philadelphia,
Pa., U.S.), Canadian-American sociologist noted for his studies
of face-to-face communication and related rituals of social
interaction. His The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
(1959) laid out the dramaturgical perspective he used in
subsequent studies, such as Asylums (1961) and Stigma (1964). In
Frame Analysis (1979) and Forms of Talk (1981), he focused on
the ways people “frame” or define social reality in the
communicative process. See also interactionism. What made you
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