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The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.
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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