Explore/Thinkers/Erving Goffman — Interaction RitualbookErving Goffman — Interaction RitualGoffman, Erving. *Interaction Ritual*. New York: Pantheon Books, 1967.Focus in observatoryPrevious← Elizabeth W Morrison — Employee Voice Behavior.NextFaden, Ruth R., and Tom L. Beauchamp — A History and Theory of Informed Consent →Related conceptsConceptThinkingactive interruption of automaticityConceptUncertaintyUncertainty names what moral and social systems are built to reduce—fragmented lives, broken coordination, intolerable ambiguity—before compression and stabilization produce answers that feel obvious.Related booksBookHow Meaning MovesSignal, Compression, Restraint, and the Pace of UnderstandingA concise tour of how meaning travels through language, systems, and relationships, and why restraint is often the difference between noise and connection.
