Top 27 Goffman Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Goffman

#1. Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.

Erving Goffman

#2. In reviewing his own moral career, the stigmatized individual may single out and retrospectively elaborate experiences which serve for him to account for his coming to the beliefs and practices that he now has regarding his own kind and normals.

Erving Goffman

#3. Our sense of being a person can come from being drawn into a wide social unit; our sense of selfhood can arise through the little ways in which we resist the pull. Our status is backed by the solid buildings of the world, while our sense of personal identity often resides in the cracks

Erving Goffman

#4. There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.

Erving Goffman

#5. No 'buts', Gilbert. You just make sense to me. It's nothing more special than that.

Peter Hedges

#6. Choose your self-presentations carefully, for what starts out as a mask may become your face.

Erving Goffman

#7. And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

Erving Goffman

#8. Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

Erving Goffman

#9. The world, in truth, is a wedding.

Erving Goffman

#10. All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn't are not easy to specify

Erving Goffman

#11. Society is an insane asylum ran by the inmates.

Erving Goffman

#12. I've wanted to make films since a really young age. It's always been my passion.

Ryan Gosling

#13. So I ask that these papers be taken for what they merely are: exercises, trials, tryouts, a means of displaying possibilities, not establishing fact.

Erving Goffman

#14. Countercultural liberties can open pathways to well-being that aren't recognized by mainstream culture - but can also result in a reckless disregard for self and others.

Ken Goffman

#15. Although the pictures shown here cannot be taken as representative of gender behavior in real life... one can probably make a significant negative statement about them, namely, that as pictures they are not perceived as peculiar and unnatural.

Erving Goffman

#16. The issue becomes not whether a person has experience with a stigma of his own, because he has, but rather how many varieties he has had his own experience with.

Erving Goffman

#17. What we got,' Kelly said, 'we're stuck with it, even if our stubborn, rational brains might decide we're through. It'll always be there, whether we like it or not.

Cara McKenna

#18. Passion is what you would do if you got to choose. It's what you think about doing in the privacy of your own mind, without ear of dismissal or mockery.

Urijah Faber

#19. The self ... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.

Erving Goffman

#20. Stigma is a process by which the reaction of others spoils normal identity.

Erving Goffman

#21. I am going to have to stick to the script. If I muck around with the words it will defeat the object.

Clive Anderson

#22. The model of "social order." Briefly, a social order may be defined as the consequence of any set of moral norms that regulates the way in which persons pursue objectives.

Erving Goffman