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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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Selling time: situated transactions in a noninstitutional environment*

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe the artful constructions of strategies used by salespeople to encase the sales transaction and assume that their success is somehow dependent on presentation, which is not the case.
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Using thematic analysis to explore symbolism in transport choice across national cultures

TL;DR: This paper used the Hofstede cross-cultural indices (power differential and individualism versus collectivism) to develop and strengthen the theory through qualitative deductive thematic analysis of transport connotations across national cultures and how they affect individual and group transport choices.
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Coping with classroom reading : an ethnographic investigation into the experiences of four dyslexic pupils during the final years of primary schooling

TL;DR: In this article, an ethnographic case study explores how four dyslexic pupils coped with classroom reading during their final two years at a large primary school in an exmining village on the outskirts of a northern city.
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Conversational agreement and racial formation processes

TL;DR: This paper explored how conversationalists deploy agreement to co-construct a racialized image of immigrants to Italy and found that repeated occurrence of agreement during co-construction of utterances produces a spiral effect around racializing discourse, a progressive deepening of the racialization itself.