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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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The Recognition of Embarrassment

TL;DR: In this article, two experiments were conducted to determine whether embarrassment is a recognizable emotion independent of the nonverbal associates of humor and the relative importance of facial versus bodily cues for the recognition of embarrassment and amusement.
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‘Don't speak like that to her!’: Linguistic minority children's socialization into an ideology of monolingualism

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors studied how school-authorities, parents and children co-create Danish dominance and a linguistic ideology of monolingualism during the first school year, and the primary focus was on two school-beginners with minority language background in a linguistically diverse classroom.
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Responses to Embarrassment

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focused on responses to the emotion of embarrassment and examined three factors: the situations causing embarrassment, the degree of perceived embarrassment and the agent of the embarrassment, as well as the response of the embarrassed person in association with the responses of others.
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Keeping & Dwelling: Relational Extension, the Idea of Home, and Otherness

TL;DR: Latimer and Munro as mentioned in this paper explored the meaning of home in terms of the art of dwelling and found that what people "keep" affects their experience of dwelling, and that keeping, in this analysis, grants relational extension, creating and reproducing worlds that bind.
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The beholder beheld: A study of social emotionality

TL;DR: In this article, it is argued that when social emotions arise as a consequence of disrupting social rules, this is because the actor in question is aware of a discrepancy between his or her self-image, which is assumed to be neutral, and the image which he or she assumes to have conveyed to those who witness the incident, in a role-playing experiment, subjects were presented with four situations depicting disruptions of routine activity, two of which involved rule disruption.