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To Goffman, as a symbolic interactionists, a focus on individual actors obscured important facts about interaction. Goffman's basic unit of analysis was thus not the individual but the ________?

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Goffman's basic unit of analysis was the dramaturgical perspective or the concept of the self as a performer on a social stage.

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To Goffman, as a symbolic interactionist, a focus on individual actors obscured important facts about interaction. Goffman's basic unit of analysis was thus not the individual but the dramaturgical perspective or the concept of the self as a performer on a social stage.

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