# Erving Goffman **Entity class:** Person **Domain:** Sociology / strategic interaction ## Definition **Erving Goffman** (1922–1982) was a sociologist whose dramaturgical account of social presentation and later analysis of strategic interaction provide a vocabulary for performance, teams, front and back regions, impression management, and adversarial interpretation. ## Relationships - **authored:** [[wiki/The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life|The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life]] and [[wiki/Strategic Interaction|Strategic Interaction]]. - **informs:** [[wiki/Dramaturgy|Dramaturgy]], [[wiki/Expression Games|Expression Games]], and the [[wiki/Producer Function|Producer Function]] framework. - **source context:** [[research/The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy|The Producer Function in Intelligence Tradecraft and Dramaturgy]].