In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including
"The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, "and "Stigma,
"Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet
face to face. Goffman's work, once of the great intellectual
achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascinating commentary on
how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of
other people.
From the exemplary opening essay of "Interaction Ritual," "On
Face-Work," --a full account of the extraordinary repertoire of
maneuvers we employ in social encounters in order to "save
face"--to the final, and classic, essay "Where the Action Is,"--an
examination of people in risky occupations and situations:
gamblers, criminals, coal miners, stock speculators--Goffman
astounds us with the unexpected richness and complexity of brief
encounters between people. For Goffman, as for Freud, the extreme
cases are of interest because of the light they shed on the normal:
The study of the trapeze artist is worthwhile because each of us is
on the wire from time to time.
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