# Quote — Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

> I mean this report to serve as a sort of handbook detailing one sociological perspective from which social life can be studied, especially the kind of social life that is organised within the physical confines of a building or plant. A set of features will be described which together form a framework that can be applied to any concrete social establishment, be it domestic, industrial, or commercial.

- Author: [Erving Goffman](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman.md)
- Book: [The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life.md)
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> Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.

p. 13 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/society-is-organized.md)

> The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.

p. 229 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/the-degree-that.md)

> In recent years there have been elaborate attempts to bring into one framework the concepts and findings derived from three different areas of inquiry: the individual personality, social interaction, and society. I would like to suggest here a simple addition to these inter-disciplinary attempts.

p. 155 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/erving-goffman/the-presentation-of-self-in-everyday-life/in-recent-years.md)