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| The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | | This site provides an excerpt from Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. It is called "The Arts of Impression Management."
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http://wizard.ucr.edu/~bkaplan/soc/lib/goffimpr.html
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| Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | | This site contains a very good, concise summary of Goffman's classic work. The author links Goffman's ideas to those of many others, including Émile Durkheim and Antonio Gramsci.
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http://www.cfmc.com/adamb/writings/goffman.htm
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| Erving Goffman | | This site is a lengthy biography and review of Goffman's life provided by Andreas Tueber at Brandeis University. It includes a listing of all of Goffman's published books, a narrative summary of Goffman's most important concepts, and an obituary written on the occasion of Goffman's death.
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http://people.brandeis.edu/~teuber/goffmanbio.html
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| Celebrating Erving Goffman | | This paper, by Eliot Freidson, was read at a memorial session for Erving Goffman at the Eastern Sociological Society meeting in 1983. It was later published in the journal Contemporary Sociology, 12 (4) July, 1983. It provides a good overview of Goffman's life and work.
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http://itsa.ucsf.edu/~eliotf/Celebrating_Erving_Goffman.html
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| The Total Institution | | This webpage by John Stolte, a professor at Northern Illinois University, provides a summary of Goffman's concept of the total institution as described in Asylums.
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http://webpages.chhs.niu.edu/stolte/soc260/asylums.htm
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| Asylums | | Here are excerpts from Goffman's Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates.
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http://www.mdx.ac.uk/www/study/xgof.htm
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| Dramaturgy: Beyond Erving Goffman | | This site is sponsored by the Red Feather Institute for Advanced Studies in Sociology. It offers a mini-lecture on Goffman's dramaturgical model. The purpose of the lecture is to extend Goffman's model beyond the level of face-to-face interaction, and to promote an understanding of its applications to mass phenomena such as the way that capitalists present themselves to consumers in the media.
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http://www.tryoung.com/lectures/021DramaturgicalAnalysis.htm
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| The Presentation of Self in Electronic Life: Goffman on the Internet | | This is an on-line essay written by Hugh Miller at the Nottingham Trent University. He applies Goffman's concepts of self presentation and framing to people's self presentation on Internet web pages. The essay provides a review of Goffman's ideas, an analysis of the different kinds of personal web pages on the Internet, and a consideration of the unique problems in applying Goffman's work to web pages.
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http://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/~rnau/choice/whoswho.htm
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