The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

By E. Goffman. 1959

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Social Data: Biases, Methodological Pitfalls, and Ethical Boundaries (2019, background): “People try to inﬂuence the opinion that others form about them by controlling their own behavior (Goﬀman, 1959), depending on who they are interacting with, and the place and the context of the interactions.”
Overcoming the "Ideology of Openness": Probing the Affordances of Social Media for Organizational Knowledge Sharing (2013, background): “Our participants were more motivated by concerns over job security and confidentiality than other factors such as fear of demonstrating lack of adequate expertise or the threat of exposing drafts and unfinished products to one’s reputation, which all reveal the strategic (Eisenberg, 1984) and self-p”
Complex Interactions in Student Teaching (2009, background): “Our data suggest that student teachers adopted a common strategy for negotiating the terrain in which they performed an identity ( Goffman, 1959 ) that was at odds with the identities they had constructed or wanted to construct.”
DRESSING TO IMPRESS: BELIEFS AND ATTITUDES REGARDING WORKPLACE ATTIRE (2006, background): “While there is theoretical support for the argument that individuals use clothing as part of how they construct their image in the workplace (Frith & Gleeson, 2004; Goffman, 1959; Rafaeli & Pratt, 1993; Trice & Beyer, 1993), research has focused almost solely on how attire is perceived by others.”
Becoming a Professional: Experimenting with Possible Selves in Professional Preparation (2008, background): “A central issue across professions is that novices are expected to act the part before they fully grasp or identify with new roles, which has important implications for professional acceptance and effectiveness (Goffman, 1959; Ibarra, 1999).”
Consumer trust in different food provisioning schemes: evidence from Beijing, China (2016, background): “Trust means that individuals involved in interactions expect others to follow ‘normal’ patterns and routines in social life (Sztompka, 1999) so that the continuity of social reality can be taken for granted (Garfinkel, 1967; Goffman, 1959).”
A wonderful life: experiential consumption and the pursuit of happiness (2015, background): “People grow attached to their possessions as reminders of the occasions when they were purchased (Zauberman, Ratner, & Kim, 2009), as symbols of a time of life when they were most heavily used (Sierra & McQuitty, 2007), and as signals to others of identities they would like to claim (Belk, 1988; Ell”
The mismanaged soul: Existential labor and the erosion of meaningful work (2017, unknown): “…reasons when faced with initiatives aimed at managing their levels of experienced meaningfulness, in other words, to construct and 1951), leading to what Goffman (1959) refers to as “front stage” and “back stage” behaviors, or the creation of a repertoire of possible selves (Alvesson, 2010).”
Little Words That Matter: Discourse Markers “So” and “Oh” and the Doing of Other-Attentiveness in Social Interaction (2006, background): “Politeness strategies show the interlocutors’ concern with presenting positive selfimage and not imposing on others (Brown & Levinson, 1987; Goffman, 1971 ).”
Values as lived experience: evolving value sensitive design in support of value discovery (2009, background): “In addition to practical concerns of staying in contact with family or finding employment, mobile phones had important social functionswhen dealing with concerns of identity management and stigma [21, 22].”