The Nature of Deference and Demeanor

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American AnthropologistVolume 58, Issue 3 p. 473-502 Free Access The Nature of Deference and Demeanor ERVING GOFFMAN, ERVING GOFFMAN National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MarylandSearch for more papers by this author ERVING GOFFMAN, ERVING GOFFMAN National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MarylandSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1956 https://doi.org/10.1525/aa.1956.58.3.02a00070Citations: 390AboutPDF ToolsExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL REFERENCES CITED Anonymous 1836 The Laws of Etiquette. Philadelphia, Carey, Lee and Blanchard. De Quincey, Thomas 1890 French and English Manners. In Collected Writings of Thomas De Quincey, ed. David Masson, 14: 327– 334. 14 vols.; Edinburgh, Adams and Charles Black. Dichter, Ernest 1950 A Psychological Study of the Doctor-Patient Relationship. California Medical Association, Alameda County Medical Association. Douglas, R. K. 1895 Society in China. London, Innes. Durkheim, Emile 1953 The Determination of Moral Facts. In Sociology and Philosophy, trans. D. F. Pocock, pp. 35– 62. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Durkheim, Emile 1954 The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life, trans, J. W. Swain. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Garvin, P. L. and S. H. Riesenberg 1952 Respect Behavior on Ponape: An Ethnolinguistic Study. American Anthropologist 54: 201– 220. Goffman, Erving 1952 Social Research, Inc., MS. Goffman, Erving 1955 On Face-Work. Psychiatry 18: 213– 231. Goffman, Erving Ms. Alienation from Interaction. Human Relations. Gross, Edward 1949 Informal Relations and the Social Organization of Work. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Hodge, F. W. 1907 Etiquette: Handbook of American Indians. Washington, D.C., Government Printing Office. Murdock, George P. 1949 Social Structure. New York, Macmillan. Parsons, Talcott 1937 The Structure of Social Action. New York, McGraw-Hill. Radcliffe-Brown, A. R. 1952 Taboo. In Structure and Function in Primitive Society, pp. 133– 152. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Schwartz, Morris S. and Alfred H. Stanton 1950 A Social Psychological Study of Incontinence. Psychiatry 13: 399– 416. Simmel, Georg 1950 The Sociology of Georg Simmel, trans. and ed. Kurt Wolff. Glencoe, Ill., Free Press. Social Research, Inc. 1952 Unpublished study of small business managers. Ms. Srinivas, M. N. 1952 Religion and Society among the Coorgs of South India. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Taxel, Harold 1953 Authority Structure in a Mental Hospital Ward. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Thomas, W. R. 1953 The Unwilling Patient. Journal of Mental Science 99: 191– 201. Thouless, R. H. 1951 General and Social Psychology. London, University Tutorial Press. Trollope, Mrs. 1832 Domestic Manners of the Americans. 2 vols.; London, Treacher. Walk, Alexander 1954 Some Aspects of the “Moral Treatment” of the Insane up to 1854. Journal of Mental Science 100: 807– 837. Willoughby, Robert H. 1953 The Attendant in the State Mental Hospital. Unpublished Master's thesis, Department of Sociology, University of Chicago. Wittkower, E. D. and J. D. La Tendresse 1955 Rehabilitation of Chronic Schizophrenics by a New Method of Occupational Therapy. British Journal of Medical Psychology 28: 42– 47. Citing Literature Volume58, Issue3June 1956Pages 473-502 ReferencesRelatedInformation