Quote of the day
Like stones rolling down hills, fair ideas reach their objectives despite all obstacles and barriers. It may be possible to speed or hinder them, but impossible to stop them.
Erving Goffman

Born: June 11, 1922
Died: November 19, 1982 (aged 60)
Bio: Erving Goffman was a Canadian-American sociologist and writer, considered "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
Known for:
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
- Asylums (1961)
- Stigma (1963)
- Interaction ritual (1967)
- Forms of talk (1981)
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