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Erving Goffman: Social Life, Impression Management, & The Performance That Trapped Everyone
That feeling of meticulous self-calibration before a job interview. The perfectly curated personality for a first date, a social gathering, or even a casual coffee run. We tend to treat these moments as high-stakes exceptions to our “authentic” lives, brief periods where we consciously don a mask. But what if they aren’t the exception? What if, in fact, they are the rule?
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Prepare for a chilling proposition from the brilliant sociologist Erving Goffman: you have never truly…
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