Erving Goffman Quote

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no less than the physical one, is fateful for everyone concerned and in every society appears to come under strict normative regulation, giving rise to a kind of communication traffic order...

Philip Manning, Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology (Stanford University Press, 1992), p. 88.

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no...

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no...

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no...

When persons are present to one another they can function not merely as physical instruments but also as communicative ones. This possibility, no...