Academicus International Scientific Journal

Title:
Goffman, Parsons, and the Negational Self  

Author(s):
Dr. (PhD) James J Chriss
j.chriss@csuohio.edu
Department of Sociology and Criminology, Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA
0000-0002-6726-7290

Abstract:
Erving Goffman’s emphasis on impression management in everyday life means that for the most part persons offer only partial or incomplete glimpses of themselves. Indeed, under specifiable conditions self-presentations may take the form of a negational self. If negational selves exist at the person or individual level, then they must also exist at the collective level (that is, if we are to take seriously such notions as the social mind, collective representations, or even culture). Understandings of how this negational self appears and is produced at various analytical levels (micro, meso, and macro) can be anchored via a conceptual schema which merges Goffman’s own identity typology with the three-world model of Jürgen Habermas by way of Talcott Parsons.

Keywords:
negational self; indentity; Goffman; Parsons; Habermas; self; me and I; three worlds theory

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Digital Object Identifier DOI:
https://dx.medra.org/10.7336/academicus.2015.11.01


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Presented: September 2014
Included for Publishing: December 2014
Published: January 2015, Volume 6, Issue 11

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