Adam Russell Establishing Presence in the Classroom As I was reading Goffman, I kept thinking about Harry Wong’s First Day of School. In Wong’s book, he stresses the importance of presence in the classroom. Throughout my 8 years of…
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Commentary #5 Goffman
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I think we are all conscious at some level of the differing roles we take on in our lives; as teachers, students, parents, children, siblings, spouses, friends. We are not only playing different roles in different situations, we play them…
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Walker Percy Commentary
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“…the thing is lost through its packaging.” – The Loss of the Creature This is a frightening thought because nothing can be taken as it is, or as you see that it is, or as it is presented to…
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Truth and Lies
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Tina Bell 5870 Commentary 5 24 March 2009 Commentary 5 “You see how long he hesitated before answering? That’s a lie. When telling a lie, one hesitates longer before answering in order to think about the arrangement of…
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Goffman Response
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James D. Dyer De Kim DeVries ENG 5870 Spring 2009 Goffman, Ethnography and the Classroom I have thought that Goffman’s work was fundamentally important to the social sciences since I first read it six or seven years ago,…
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Goffman
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Joel Manfredi antivirus software reviews 2013 English 5870 Dr. De Vries Goffman Journal Entry Amazing article. I caught myself laughing at some of the descriptions of Preedy, the “vacationing Englishman,” because although I don’t want to admit it, I…