Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

In his book, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Goffman used the metaphor of the theater to analyze human social action. The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life is a seminal sociology book by Erving Goffman. USA: Anchor (Penguin Reprint 1990) by Emily Ball Cicchini. 'Performances' in The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Penguin, Hammondsworth, pp. €The legitimate performances of everyday life are not 'acted' or 'put on' in the sense that the performer knows in advance just what he is going to do, and does this solely because of the effect it is likely to have.” (pg. It uses the imagery of the theatre in order to study human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge Press. REVIEW Goffman, Erving (1959) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life. What does Goffman mean when he says that life can be looked at “as if it were theater?”Topics: social science, sociology. 117-126 in Sociology: Exploring the Architecture of Everyday Life Readings, 8th ed., edited by David M. The ideas in the book formed Goffman's sociological perspective known as dramaturgy. Erving Goffman, the social psychologist who wrote The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, used the analogy of the front stage and backstage. €The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.” Pp. Sociologist Erving Goffman drew from the theatrical metaphor when he helped us understand that life involves front-stage and back-stage actions.