Interaction Ritual

In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascination commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people.

ERVING GOFFMAN is the author of, among other works, Interaction Ritual, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma. He is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

Introduction • 1

On Face-Work • 5

The Nature of Deference and Demeanor • 47

Embarrassment and Social Organization • 97

Alienation from Interaction • 113

Mental Symptoms and Public Order • 137

Where the Action Is • 149

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