Works
Goffman's major works include Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life", Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience, "Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity", Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior and Forms of Talk, in addition to many other books and essays. Many of his works form the basis for the sociological and media studies concept of framing.
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