Famously, “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life” states its premise with a line that engages “As You Like It”: “All the world is not, of course, a stage, ...

The book also highlights everyday life—putting the focus on the issues and concerns that are most relevant to the readers’ social context. The Social Self and Everyday Life bridges classical theories ...

Goffman, who died in 1982, achieved fame with the publication of his 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, in which he argued that social interaction is a kind of drama or theater ...

Erving Goffman’s The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a ‘bible’ for scholars, voted a top 10 book of the 20th century. It also fascinated general readers, as a guide to social manners.

• Association: surrounding oneself with a particular social group to protect or promote one’s self-image. According to CNN fact-checker Daniel Dale, Donald Trump lied at least 33 times during ...