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Thank you for this post. I really enjoyed studying Goffman in college. I loved the concept of ‘repair utterances’ that e essentially say for perception management.

So nice to read an accessible sociology oriented newsletter! I’m a film writer by profession. I studied both literature and sociology at college but I find that ultimately it was sociology the pushed me towards writing stories. Reading your post I think Goffman had a lot to do with it! Thank you !

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Goffman is definitely fun to read. Fun to teach. And, yay, more sociologically-inspired movie makers, for sure!

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Goffman rules! But I wonder what he would say to the recent trend of actually picking the pizza up off the kitchen floor and eating it? When alone? It happens. More and more. Etiquette performance has broken down inside the American home while still maintained outside. Informal at home. Formal in public?

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That’s really interesting!

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