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Way Quotes by Erving Goffman
- Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
- Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he is treated, and quite on…
- A performer may be taken in by his own act, convinced at the moment that the impression of reality which he fosters is the one…
- Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little…
- All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify
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