| #729032 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 1969 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.36 x5.51l,.85 | File type: PDF | 160 pages | ||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Customer|Thank you|1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| A must read.|By Michael H.|One of the most insightful works on social roles and interaction. Many insights into social dynamics. Also helpful for literary and cinematic analysis.|13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.|||"Goffman is entranced with the subtleties of direct confrontation among people. His is the style of the essayist and of the miniaturist. In this book he selects, among others, the analogy of the game as an integrating device. . . . Goffman's games are verbal
The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term "strategic interaction" to describe gamelike events in which an individual's situation is fully dependent on the move of one's opponent and in which both players know this and have the wit to use this awareness for advantage. Goffman aims to show that strategic interaction...
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