"Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint…"

"I mean this report to serve as a sort of handbook detailing one sociological perspective from which social life can b…"

"Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral ri…"

"In many kinds of social interaction, unofficial communication provides a way in which one team can extend a definite …"

"In our society, defecation involves an individual in activity which is defined as inconsistent with the cleanliness a…"

"Often, when two teams enter social interaction, we can identify one as having the lower general prestige and the othe…"

"In recent years there have been elaborate attempts to bring into one framework the concepts and findings derived from…"

"When an individual appears before others, he wittingly and unwittingly projects a definition of the situation, of whi…"

"The self... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to…"

"The degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experi…"