Commentary #5

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…

Commentary #5 Goffman

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…

Truth and Lies

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…

Goffman Response

  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,…

Goffman

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…