Showing papers by "Erving Goffman published in 1956"
TL;DR: Embarrassment occurs whenever an individual is felt to have projected incopatible definition of himself before those present as discussed by the authors, and it occurs at certain places in a social establishment where incop compatible principles of social organization prevail In the forestalling of conflict between these principles, embarrassment has its social function
Abstract: Embarrassment, a possibility in every face-to-face encounter, demostrates some generic properties of interaction It occurs whenever an individual is felt to have projected incopatible definition of himself before those present These projections do not occur at random or for psychological reasons but at certain places in a social establishment where incopatible principles of social organization prevail In the forestalling of conflict between these principles, embarrassment has its social function
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