Erving Goffman and You: Teams

Elisabet wants to nudge her customers into paying the bill and clearing out, but doesn't want to make it obvious. Erving Goffman might say that Elisabet and her co-workers are co-conspirators. They will have to come up with a plan of action to get Table 4 to leave without losing Elisabet's tip.
Erving Goffman was a sociologist who used theater terminology to analyze everyday interactions, and called this method dramaturgy. Erving Goffman and You explores the main tenets of Erving Goffman's writings on face-to-face interaction using six different modern day anecdotes. The episodes cover many of Goffman's concepts, including unmeant gestures, regions, teams, tactful inattention, impression management, and idealized performances.