Alienation Quote by Erving Goffman

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

The routines of social intercourse in established settings allow us to deal with anticipated others without special attention or thought.

— Erving Goffman

“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

“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

“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

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

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

There is a close meshing with the ritual properties of persons and with the egocentric forms of territoriality.

— Erving Goffman

“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

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

“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

“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