Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior

Synopsis

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.