Erving Goffman Quote

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark, shriveling up the reality in which one is lodged.


Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction, as quoted by R. D. Laing in The Politics of Experience


There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark,...

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark,...

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark,...

There seems to be no agent more effective than another person in bringing a world for oneself alive, or, by a glance, a gesture, or a remark,...