A good biographical piece on Goffman by Sherri Cavan:
When Erving Goffman Was a Boy: The Formative Years of a Sociological Giant
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"The main point about civility is the ability to interact with strangers without holding
their strangeness against them and without pressing them to surrender it or to renounce
some or all the traits that have made them strangers in the first place."
— Zygmunt Bauman, Liquid Modernity (1999)
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