PRESENTATION OF SELF IN EVERYDAY LIFE GOFFMAN

In the The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life Goffman seeks to show the reader how everyone sets out to present themselves to the world around them, always trying to maintain the role they have selected for themselves, since those whom they meet not only try to decide what role it is you are playing, but also whether or not you are competent to play that role. More significantly, impression management is a function of …

…nction of social status: people in low status roles are more defensive in their role-distance (ashamed of their role). For author, there is no real self, only a multiplicity of selves, all of which are real to us (my selves as myself), and which are dynamic: these selves are not pre-determined fractures but emerge in the course of action. WORD COUNT: 2526 Bibliography Goffman, Erving. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. New York.: Anchor Books, 1959.