OFTEN, there is a need for each of us to present ourselves and to make a good impression from the point of view of other people. Social psychologist Erving Goffman refers to this as the “presentation ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of the Canadian-American sociologist Erving Goffman. Goffman, who died in 1982, achieved fame with the publication of his 1959 book The Presentation ...