Apr 24
#goffman#facework#orig post#i think about this so often ever since reading it in undergrad and as such ref it semi (ir)regularly on here#so since i was thinking about it again recently i figured i would just pop the whole thing since its such a relatively short article#typing in goffman and getting 'erving goffman' as a suggested tag btw was very funny#tumblr for all its flaws still the website of all time#anyways if you read this and go 'hmmm very compelling and interesting but i have quibbles about some of the language being used#like default he him or reffing an an/glo am/rican society'#as my classmates and i did when we read it. over a decade ago#it is because it is from the 60s lol#but in Our defense the project we were doing was specifically about facework and social media so we had a modern mindset for how#we approached the text#anyways! goffman very interesting social theorist and facework and the ideas it presents compel me endlessly regarding performance#of the self and the sense of self and all that interesting stuff
