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Any group of persons – prisoners, primitives, pilots, or patients – develop a life of their own that becomes meaningful, reasonable and normal once you get close to it.
Erving Goffman
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Erving Goffman
Age: 60 †
Born: 1922
Born: June 11
Died: 1982
Died: November 20
Anthropologist
Non-Fiction Writer
Sociologist
Mannville
Alberta
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