1. ERVING GOFFMAN
Names
By: Marika Saidova

2. Erving Goffman
• Born in 1922-1982, Mannville, Alberta
• Ukrainian Jewish parents

3. Erving Goffman - education
• Interested in chemistry
• Attended St. John Technical High School, then
BSc. At University of Manitoba
• Early 1940s – first encounters with sociology
(Dennis Wrong)
• 1945 – graduated at University of Toronto
• 1949 – 1951 Collecting data for doctoral
dissertation (Island of Unst – Scotland)

4. Erving Goffman - education
• 1953 – succesfully defended his disertation

5. Erwing Goffman
• 1958 – Invited to teach at the University of
California in Berkley
• 1959 – The presentation of Self, 1961 – Asylum
• Progressed rapidly, 1962 full professor
• Stock market, Blackjack
• 1964 – His wife commited suicide
• 1969 The Insanity of Place rumored to be
autobiographical

7. Erving Goffman
• 1968 resigned his position in Berkley
• Benjamin Franklin Chair in Sociology and
anthropology at the university of Pennsylvania
• Frame Analysis, published 1974, hoped to be
his magnum opus
• 1981 - 73rd president of American Sociological
Association,
• 1982 - died from Stomach cancer, in
Philadelphia

8. No matter where
you are, you
always “put a
mask” to get
where you want
and to be part of
something.
“The World is like a stage”

9. Humans are:
Active and knowledgeable

10. Devise their own conduct

11. Guide and control how others see them

12. Different in social settings than alone

13. Social Con Artists

14. DRAMATURGY
 The Theatrical Representation of life
 Consist from Front Stage and Back Stage
 Uses Impression Management as a tool

15. “And to the degree that the individual maintains a
show before others that he himself does not believe, he
can come to experience a special kind of alienation
from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
Erving Goffman:

17. He was influenced by..
Herbert Blumer Lloyd Warner

19. Erving Goffman’s work was overly impressionistic
Unsystematic: he mainly focused on small groups
Lack of reliability, operationalization and testing.

20. Impact that Goffman had on the society
He is considered the most influential
American sociologist of the twentieth
century"

21. Goffman dramatically revised how
we think of social life

22. Although Goffman died in 1982, his work is
still a major influence in contemporary social
analysis.

23. References
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• Fine, G. A., & Smith, G. (2000). Erving goffman. (p. 1688). Sage.
Retrieved from http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book210765

24. Thank you for
your
attention