Erving Goffman

Frame Analysis

Analysis of how humans organize and interpret social situations and experiences

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Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman

Goffman developed dramaturgical sociology, analyzing everyday social interaction as a kind of performance in which individuals manage the impressions they make on others. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a foundational text of microsociology.

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