Sociologist Erving Goffman argued in 1956 that everyone runs a front stage and a back stage self, and that the strain most people feel in company is the cost of keeping the performance from slipping

In 1956, sociologist Erving Goffman argued that every social interaction is theatre — a front stage performance and a back stage self — and that the strain of company is the cost of keeping the two apart. The post Sociologist Erving Goffman argued in 1956 tha…

Erving Goffman, a Canadian sociologist working at the University of Edinburgh, published a slim monograph in 1956 called The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, and in it he argued that every huma…