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Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

A more suitable `beginners' Goffman book might be The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959) which provides a less systematic (and theoretical) approach toward the mundane interaction in everyday life. But what interests me here is more the performance of self as its been effected in these popular culture products. The sticky influence of our contrived life means that everyone everywhere is playing a role – to present a tailored version of life and its experiences better. There is often an element of the backstage, the “behind the scenes”; a concept discussed in Erwing Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959). Focus on social life organized within confines of building or plant – handle concrete social establishments (domestic, industrial, commercial). Anyway, it is an atmospheric picture. The ideas in the book formed Goffman's sociological perspective known as dramaturgy. We are witnessing lately a burst in our access to information. So, to start over, do you remember reading Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life back in freshman year of college? The presentation of self in everyday life. In his book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman used the metaphor of the theater to analyze human social action.