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Erving Goffman Quotes: Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.
         

Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.


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