The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Goffman, E. (1959). The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. Doubleday.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1959

Link

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Cited from

psychology, sociology_anthropology

Cited by

4 citations across 4 artifacts.

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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.

• 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.

• Social Construction of Reality
  • Goffman 1959 analyzed everyday life as theatrical performance where social reality is continuously enacted and constructed through interaction

    This sourceFoundational dramaturgical analysis: actors maintain distinct frontstage (public, audience-facing) and backstage (private, performance-relaxed) regions, with systematically different behavior in each.

Domain-specific

• Impression Management

  • This sourceDevelops the dramaturgical analysis of performances, audiences, front and back regions, and definitions of the situation.

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