Quote by Erving Goffman

"The individual is not to be thought of as a type of organism possessing, in the first instance, a cluster of motivations or attributes and a particular psychic structure. Rather, the individual is to be thought of as a stance, a line, a set of maneuvers, something that is constructed moment to moment."

Erving Goffman Philosophy
Sociologist Canadian-American 1922–1982

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