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Goffman's dramaturgical sociology

one of the seminal theoretical exponents of the theatrical metaphor, the sociologist Erving Goffman. In his book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman adopts the theatrical model as ‘one sociological perspective from which social life can be studied’.

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