Word: goffman
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Deinstitutionalization fit perfectly into the antiauthoritarian zeitgeist of the '60s and early '70s. Radical Psychiatrist R.D. Laing popularized the rather romantic notion that insanity could be a sane reaction to an insane world, while Sociologist Erving Goffman suggested that institutions, by their very nature, stifled individual development. Courts began to protect the rights of the mentally ill against the encroachments of the state. But in the 1980s, the continual seesaw in America between individual freedom and society's responsibility is tipping again...
Wanda: Don't start, Ralph. Even some of you men are starting to get the hang of this. Erving Goffman, the expert in nonverbal communication, wrote that women are almost always shown smiling in ads to show their deference to men. When there's a smiling man in an ad, the woman usually has to smile twice as broadly to indicate her subordinate status. Then there's the new book Winning Moves: The Body Language of Selling. It warns women sales representatives not to smile too much or too early when calling on a prospect. Ken Delmar, the businessman...
DIED. Erving Goffman, 60, unorthodox sociologist whose provocative books (The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Forms of Talk) developed his somewhat mordant theories of contemporary ritual, based upon the overlooked small print of daily life (gossip, gestures, even grunts), in such settings as mental asylums and advertising columns; of cancer; in Philadelphia...