Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior

Jacket Description/Back: In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascination commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people. Biographical Note: ERVING GOFFMAN is the author of, among other works, "Interaction Ritual, ""The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, "and "Stigma. "He is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. Marc Notes: Originally published: New York: Doubleday, 1967.; Includes bibliographical references.

Contributor Bio:  Goffman, Erving Erving Goffman was Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania until his death in 1982. He is recognized as one of the world's foremost social theorists and much of his work still remains in print. Among his classic books are The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Interaction Ritual, Stigma, Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, and Frame Analysis.