Cultural Reader

You know the moment. A group chat flares alive, five people typing at once, the jokes stacking like glasses at a wedding. Someone drops a me...

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life  is one of the most important works of the Canadian sociologist Erving Goffman . In it, the bases ...

Erving Goffman's Dramaturgy theory  is mainly based on the understanding between people and on a common interpretation of symbols and st...

Definition: Symbolic interaction  is a  sociological  paradigm that claims that  reality is socially constructed on the basis of interaction...

The basic forms of face work according to Erving Goffman (see On Face-Work for background): The avoidance process The simplest way a pe...

Goffman, Erving. (1967/1999). On Face-Work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction Goffman's article about face-work e...

Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity - ‎Erving Goffman – summary part 1 Abstract of Summary: Goffman 's article is a re...

Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity - ‎Erving Goffman – summary part 2 (part 1 here) The person with the stigma may use hi...

Stigma: Notes on the management of spoiled identity - ‎Erving Goffman – summary part 3  (part 1 here,  , part 2 here ) Stigma and moral deve...

Irving Goffman was a Canadian-born American Jewish sociologist. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, he i...

"All   the world's a stage, And all   the  men and women merely players; They have their exits and their entrances, And one man i...