Sociology & Anthropology · Sociological Theory
Critical Theory
A topic within Sociological Theory, itself one of 9 topics in that field and part of Sociology & Anthropology.
Reading for Sociological Theory
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Assumes you know the vocabulary.
- BookThe Presentation of Self in Everyday LifeErving Goffman, 1956
Social life is dramaturgical: people manage front-stage impressions and maintain back-stage regions where the performance relaxes.
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Primary sources and full treatments.
- BookSeeing Like a StateJames C. Scott, 1998
Schemes to improve the human condition fail when they impose legibility and discard the local knowledge that made systems work.