References and Notes
- Quoted in Trilling, L. (1974), Sincerity and Authenticity, Oxford: University of Oxford Press, p. 124.
- Becker, E. (1965), “Mills social psychology and the great historical convergence on the problem of alienation”, Chapter 7, in Horowitz, J. L. (ed.), The New Sociology: essays in social science and social theory in honour of C. Wright Mills, New York: Oxford University Press.
- Gerth, H. and Mills, C. W. (1954), Character and Social Structure, New York, Routledge & Kegan Paul.
- Gerth & Mills, p. 110.
- Buber, M. (1957), “Distance and Relation”, Psychiatry, 20.
- Lyman, J. M. & Scott, M. B. (1970), A Sociology of the Absurd, New York: Appleton—Century—Crofts.
- See for example Goffman, E. (1971), The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books.
- Hall, J. A. (1977), “Sincerity and politics: Existentialists vs Goffman and Proust”, The Sociological Review, 25 (3), pp.535–550.
- Hall, p.548.
- Hall, p. 542.
- Gauldner, A. W. (1971), The Coming Crisis of Western Sociology, London: Heinemann Educational Books, p.386.
- Laing, R. D. (1965), The Divided Self, Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, of course has stated that: “Everyone in some measure wears a mask, there are many things we do not put ourselves into fully. In ordinary life it seems hardly possible for it to be otherwise” p.88. Nonetheless we are arguing here that we must always endeavour to engage in properly human transactions and this irrespective of their duration because it is not possible to know how much ‘investment’ the other is making even in the most objectively short meeting.
- Sombart, W. (1966), Der Bourgeois, Paris, Payet.