When I was at York University in the late 60s Goffman was everywhere, in every conversation. It's almost alarming to think how intellectuals and ideas are subject to what almost amount to fads and then are forgotten. But his ideas about the construction of self have always stuck with me in some general way.
When I was at York University in the late 60s Goffman was everywhere, in every conversation. It's almost alarming to think how intellectuals and ideas are subject to what almost amount to fads and then are forgotten. But his ideas about the construction of self have always stuck with me in some general way.