Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The term stigma and its synonyms conceal a double perspective: does the stigmatized individual assume his differentness is known about already or is evident… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“When an individual becomes over-involved in a topic of conversation, others are drawn from the talk to the talker. One man's eagerness is another… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“The more there is about the individual that deviates in an undesirable direction from what might have been expected to be true of him,… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
The stigmatized individual is asked to act so as to imply neither that his burden is heavy nor that bearing it has made him… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality. — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“The act of staring is a thing which one does not ordinarily do to another human being; it seems to put the object stared… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Morning and lunchtime are times when anyone can appear alone almost anywhere without this giving evidence of how the person is faring in the… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
“Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement… — Erving Goffman Copy Share Image
