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I Take it that the function of ceremony reaches in two directions, the affirmation of basic social arrangements and the presentation of ultimate doctrines about man and the world. Typically these celebrations are performed either by persons acting to one another or acting in concert before a congregation. So “social situations” are involved—defining these simply as physical arenas anywhere within which persons present are in perceptual range of one another, subject to mutual monitoring—the persons themselves being definable solely on this ground as a “gathering.”
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Goffman, E. (1976). Gender Display. In: Gender Advertisements. Communications and Culture. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-16079-2_1
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