"A performer may be taken in by his……" — Erving Goffman
"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 and only reality. In such cases we have a sense in which the performer comes to be his own audience; he comes to be performer and observer of the same show. Presumably he introcepts or incorporates the standards he attempts to maintain in the presence of others so that even in their absence his conscience requires him to act in a socially proper way."
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14 Quotes by Erving Goffman
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Man is not like other animals in the ways that are really significant: Animals have instincts, we have taxes.
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Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.
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The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to…
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The world, in truth, is a wedding.
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Perhaps the individual is so viable a god because he can actually understand the ceremonial significance of the way he…
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Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.
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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful,…
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Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood…
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All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy…
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The normal and the stigmatized are not persons, but perspectives.
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Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even…
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And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can…
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