Erving Goffman and You: Opening Sequence

Have you ever pretended you couldn't hear a private cellphone conversation? Or tried to look alert in class but yawned by accident? This is the kind of stuff Erving Goffman studied and wrote about. www.ervinggoffm...
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.