Backstage

The concept “back stage” was already used many years before it got a place in sociology and other social sciences. It was used to refer at the part of the theatre behind the stage. Erving Goffman uses this concept to describe the social environment where the actors, after having left the visible and audible situation of a communication situation, act freely from the standards determining this communication situation. What Goffman presented as a frame to describe some strips of societal life, has been used by other researchers to elucidate specific behavior of actors in back stage regions.

ISBN:9781405165518

Publication year:2021

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