The presentation of self in everyday life (A Pelican book)

Goffman, Erving"

ISBN 10: 0140213503 / ISBN 13: 9780140213508

Published by Penguin, 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The presentation of self in everyday life (A Pelican book)
• Publisher: Penguin
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0140213503
• ISBN 13: 9780140213508
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

The Presentation Of Self In Everyday Life

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