Erving Goffman
Erving Goffman (
June 11,
1922 -
November 19,
1982), Canadian
sociologist and writer. Goffman received his B.A. at the
University of Toronto in 1945, and his Ph.D. from the
University of Chicago, in 1953.
Author of the seminal text
Asylums that describes "institutionalization" as a response by patients to the bureaucratic structures of a hospital setting as well as
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, a study of social ritual and the personas we create for ourselves.
See also: American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
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