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In 1961, Goffman received the American Sociological Association's MacIver award for The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. [3] Philosopher Helmut R. Wagner called the book "by far" Goffman's best book and "a still unsurpassed study of the management of impressions in face-to-face encounters, a form of not uncommon manipulation." [2]
The first essay, "On Face-work", discusses the concept of face, which is the positive self-image a person holds when interacting with others. Goffman believes that face "as a sociological construct of interaction is neither inherent in nor a permanent aspect of the person". [ 6 ]
Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 ... presented a model of communication strategies in face-to-face interaction, ... A critical introduction to media and communication theory.
Face" conceptualized as an individual's positive claim of social values in socializing contact was introduced into academia by Erving Goffman through his theories of "face" and "facework". [ 13 ] [ 14 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ] According to Brown and Levinson's assumption in politeness theory based on Goffman's "face", one's face is categorized into two ...
The sociologist Erving Goffman introduced the concept of "face" into social theory with his 1955 article "On Face-work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements of Social Interaction" and 1967 book Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior.
Erving Goffman emphasized the role of cultural context as a shaper of frames when he posited that the meaning of a frame has implicit cultural roots. [3] This context dependency of media frames has been described as 'cultural resonance' [ 12 ] or 'narrative fidelity'. [ 13 ]
Let's face it: Your face might say something about your personality. Researchers at Northumbria University in England say our faces can be expressions of our genetic underpinnings. For instance ...
Identity management theory (also frequently referred to as IMT) is an intercultural communication theory from the 1990s. It was developed by William R. Cupach and Tadasu Todd Imahori on the basis of Erving Goffman's Interaction ritual: Essays on face-to-face behavior (1967).