The grocery store for example is an excellent setting to see how Goffman's dramaturgical analysis works. ... And that is exactly what people try to achieve whenever they are among strangers. 2. ...

• Word Count: 475
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This gave her a first person analysis of what she saw and experienced in her work place among unskilled laborers. ... After reading this book I wouldn't want to scrub shit out of a strangers toilet or have an old man throw milk all over me, which I just brought to him. ...

• Word Count: 1037
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: High School

Riis begins his analysis by describing the manner in which these tenements grew from housing the city's proud aristocrats to becoming the overcrowded homes for the industrious poor. ... He also allocates specific chapters for the analysis of each major ethnic group individually, and the manner in which they confront tenement living. ... It almost seems on the surface as though Riis has forgotten that he was once a stranger in a new world. ...

• Word Count: 1875
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School