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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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Profaning the Past to Salvage the Present: The Symbolically Reconstructed Pasts of Homeless Shelter Residents

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical framework linking Mead, Goffman, and narrative helps clarify strategies of self-presentation and salvaging the self within the homeless shelter context, and residents construct narratives that symbolically reconstruct the past from the standpoint of the present, and draw on the stages of the shelter's moral career to present a temporally-divided self.
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Avoiding ownership for alleged wrongdoings

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss avoiding ownership for alleged wrongdoings in language and social interaction, and present an alternative approach to avoid ownership for the alleged wrong doings of others.
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Ethics in praxis: Negotiating the presence and functions of a video camera in family therapy

TL;DR: There are layers of benefit to be derived from recording of clinical interactions, including for members themselves, and this has wider implications for the ways in which qualitative research designs in health sciences are evaluated.
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Facework and identity

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review studies which focus on Internet users' attempts to change (challenge, reinforce, negotiate) current or past, stereotypical, individual and/or group identities in interactions.
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Vote and Be Heard: Adding Back-Channel Signals to Social Mirrors

TL;DR: Conversation Votes is described, a tabletop system that augments verbal conversation with a shared anonymous back-channel to highlight agreement and shows that anonymous visual back-channels provide a medium for the underrepresented voices of a conversation and balances interaction among all participants.