The Nature of Deference and Demeanor

1956/06/01 by ERVING GOFFMAN, Erving Goffman · 782 citations
Arts and Humanities · Psychology · Social Sciences · #Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture #Deference #Etiquette #Linguistics #Philosophy #Psychoanalysis #Psychology #Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics #Rhetoric and Communication Studies #Social psychology #Sociology

paper · pdf · doi:10.1525/aa.1956.58.3.02a00070

published in American Anthropologist 58(3), 473-502 (Wiley)

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