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As a writer, Erving Goffman operates on many different levels. The variety of interpretations he has received — no two of them alike — makes us suppose that his analyses, or his capacities for presenting himself, are endlessly varied and not to be categorised. Throughout his work he has toyed with the relativistic gambit of social reality-constructing, although usually in tandem with assertions about the bedrock of social rules and obligations. One is tempted to find the larger frame of endless alternation between these views more compelling than the Durkheimian determinism lodged within.
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Collins, R. (1980). Erving Goffman and the Development of Modern Social Theory. In: Ditton, J. (eds) The View from Goffman. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16268-0_7
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