Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization by Erving Goffman

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Habit in Public areas: Notes at the Social association of Gatherings

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Hall, The Silent Language (New York: Doubleday, 1959). 2. G. H. Mead's distinction between "significant" and "nonsignificant" gestures is not entirely satisfactory here. Body idiom involves something more than a nonsignificant "conversation of gestures," because this idiom tends to evoke the same meaning for the actor as for the witness, and tends to be employed by the actor Involvement 35 see that it is, in addition, a normative one. That is, there is typically an obligation to convey certain information when in the presence of others and an obligation not to convey other impressions, just as there is an expectation that others will present themselves in certain ways.

There are involvement shields that have the useful attribute of being portable. Thus, while women in European society no longer employ fans, let alone masks, to conceal a blush or a failure to blush,8 hands are now used to cover closed eyes that are obliged to be open,9 and newspapers to cover mouths that should not be open in a yawn. 10 A question to ask about involvement shields is whether or not it is Teally felt to be legitimate to employ them, whether—to take the extreme case—it is permissible to go "out of play" when entirely alone.

The horseplay they engaged in at this time was a further expression of "breaking role," of enjoying what Everett C. " There are involvement shields that have the useful attribute of being portable. Thus, while women in European society no longer employ fans, let alone masks, to conceal a blush or a failure to blush,8 hands are now used to cover closed eyes that are obliged to be open,9 and newspapers to cover mouths that should not be open in a yawn. 10 A question to ask about involvement shields is whether or not it is Teally felt to be legitimate to employ them, whether—to take the extreme case—it is permissible to go "out of play" when entirely alone.

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