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When interacting with others, Goffman argues, an individual “will have many motives for trying to control the impression [others] receive.” As a result, Goffman writes, most individuals will calculate their manners, and in an effort to impart a specific type of impression, will “accentuate certain matters and conceal others...
According to Kennedy School Professor J. Richard Hackman, a specialist in social and organizational psychology, the phenomenon of anonymous authorship recalls an argument made by sociologist Erving Goffman in his text “The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life...
...course I don’t calculate this coldly—and neither do the contestants on reality shows—but we live in a world that both Shakespeare and sociologist Erving Goffman compared to a theatrical stage. When we are all acting through life, figuring out what roles are likely to thrive is central to achieving success. And reality shows offer dozens of controlled experiments in narrative creation. Their outcomes provide troves of data to help us end up as Horatios instead of Hamlets, McCains instead of Giulianis, Jordins instead of Melindas...
...Sure, everyone has two or three screenplays in their trunk,” West Wing writer Mark Goffman said at a different venue, “but they might as well be toilet paper.” Point being that most people don’t aggressively pursue selling a script or seeking representation...
...Mark Goffman seemed as articulate as his characters, especially when discussing the show’s ideals. “We’d like to think the president is always weighing what’s best for America, for the situation and for the administration, just as President Bartlet does,” said Goffman...