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On face-work; an analysis of ritual elements in social interaction.

Erving Goffman
- 01 Aug 1955 - 
- Vol. 18, Iss: 3, pp 213-231
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This article is published in Psychiatry MMC.The article was published on 1955-08-01. It has received 2287 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Social relation & Personality disorders.

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Apologies of the Rich and Famous: Cultural, Cognitive, and Social Explanations of Why We Care and Why We Forgive

TL;DR: In recent years, U.S. and other Western media have inundated the public with celebrity apologies as mentioned in this paper, and the public expressed clear ideas about who deserve them and who did not.
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Diachronic change of rapport orientation and sentence-periphery in Mandarin:

TL;DR: This paper provided a corpus-based analysis of formal structure and rapport orientation of evaluative speech acts in written Mandarin starting from the Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) leading up to the...
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The social rhythm of the rock music festival

Aksel Tjora
- 01 Jan 2016 - 
TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of how rock music festival "skills" are collectively produced is presented, where a communally acknowledged competence is negotiated and made explicit by means of the synchronisation of a daily rhythm that becomes common to many festivals.
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Sitting and standing: how families are fixing trust in uncertain times

TL;DR: In this paper, two complementary practices among Luo families in western Kenya that address such dilemmas: the communal initiative of sitting as a family to discuss and resolve issues in a cooperative and consensual manner; and the individualistic initiative of standing to represent the interests of another individual.
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"I'm not a druggie": adolescents' ethnicity and (erroneous) beliefs about drug use norms.

TL;DR: It is implied that perceptions of culturally specific norms may be related to adolescent drug use attitudes and behavior and argued for increased health campaign prevention efforts directed at erroneous perceptions of ethnic cultural norms.