The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.¶
Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Anchor.
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Primes¶
- Public vs. Private Contexts
- Public vs. private contexts is the structural distinction between decisions and behaviors made in front of an audience (where reputation, face-saving, and social evaluation shape motivation) versus decisions and behaviors made in solitude or anonymity (where authentic preferences and private incentives dominate), as Goffman (1959) developed in his dramaturgical analysis of self-presentation.
This sourceFoundational dramaturgical analysis: actors maintain distinct frontstage (public, audience-facing) and backstage (private, performance-relaxed) regions, with systematically different behavior in each.
- Public vs. private contexts is the structural distinction between decisions and behaviors made in front of an audience (where reputation, face-saving, and social evaluation shape motivation) versus decisions and behaviors made in solitude or anonymity (where authentic preferences and private incentives dominate), as Goffman (1959) developed in his dramaturgical analysis of self-presentation.
- Role
- Goffman (1959) extended this dramaturgical reading into a general account of social life, treating everyday conduct as performance of socially scripted parts before audiences.
This sourceFoundational dramaturgical analysis: actors maintain distinct frontstage (public, audience-facing) and backstage (private, performance-relaxed) regions, with systematically different behavior in each.
- Goffman (1959) extended this dramaturgical reading into a general account of social life, treating everyday conduct as performance of socially scripted parts before audiences.
Domain-specific¶
- Impression Management
This sourceDevelops the dramaturgical analysis of performances, audiences, front and back regions, and definitions of the situation.
Mechanisms¶
- Private Channel Selection
- The move trades on what Erving Goffman called region behavior: people manage a front-stage self before an audience, so shifting a hard message backstage lets them absorb it without a performance to defend.
This sourceDefines front and back regions as distinct settings for audience-facing performance and preparation outside the audience’s presence.
- The move trades on what Erving Goffman called region behavior: people manage a front-stage self before an audience, so shifting a hard message backstage lets them absorb it without a performance to defend.
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