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Erving Goffman was born in Canada in 1922. He
received his B.A. from the University of Toronto in 1945 and then
studied at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.A. in 1949
and his Ph.D. in 1953. For a year he lived on one of the
smaller of the Shetland Isles while he gathered material for a
dissertation on that community, and later he served as a visiting
scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington.
Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews
which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and
the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the
author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in
Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual,and Stigma
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