Reading The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life | Alexandria
Read The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman. Revealing how every emoji, status update, and selfie performs a calculated social role, Goffman's groundbreaking analysis exposes the theatrical nature of all human interaction. His radical insight? Our "authentic self" is merely a series of masks we don, each calibrated for different stages of life's endless performance.