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When does a private trouble become a public pattern? How much of identity is performance? How do status and taste become reality? Who gets to name the world? What does recognition make possible? Each three-book module raises this field and opens adjacent routes.

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Sociology
Sociology

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When does a private trouble become a public pattern?

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Complete the three opening books to unlock the deeper thinkers, traditions, concepts, and questions beneath this module.

Path lockedSociology deep pathThe first deeper route opened by completing this module.
  1. 01 / ThinkerErving GoffmanEveryday life as role, performance, cue, and scene.
  2. 02 / ConceptSocial dramaturgyIdentity as something staged with and for others.
  3. 03 / ThinkerPierre BourdieuTaste, class, habitus, and cultural capital.
Path lockedAdjacent questionA second route that turns the module into a live problem.
  1. 01 / ConceptSocial dramaturgyIdentity as something staged with and for others.
  2. 02 / ThinkerPierre BourdieuTaste, class, habitus, and cultural capital.
  3. 03 / QuestionWhen does the private become social?A deeper route into class, performance, recognition, and power.