The theory of social action by Erving Goffman

Abstract

This article is a reflection on an outstanding figure in Sociology: Goffman. We suggest a view of its works in order to go deeply into its dramatist model. Located action, presentation of self, frame on social interaction are some of the elements we dead with though a comparative with other authors, such as Parsons, Durkheim and even Freud. Goffman’s work has been analysed from numerous perspectives, offering several interpretations, but what remains still is, without any doubt, a constant aspiration of drawing the difficult and complex encounter between the micro and the macro, without being categorized in any of the well-knowm theoretical trends.