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Goffman Commentary: Giving Off Impressions
Yikes! I was working on my portfolio and discovered I hadn’t posted Goffman. I think it was a psychological slip. I was not fond of that reading and had to really fish for a response. I’m so sorry this is late! See you Tuesday. Faye ____ I had an extremely hard time taking anything useful from... »
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 differently depending on who we are with. The person my students would recognize is... »
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 the story.” The writers and producers of the new hit series Lie to Memust have read Erving Goffman’s article “The Presentation... »