Chapter 1: Top of the Class Autumn 1941. Four-year-old Adeline is intelligent and smart, receiving an award from her kindergarten teacher (Mother Agnes) on the first week of school. Her Aunt Baba treasures Adeline’s award by placing it in her…
A Confessional About an NFL Player Who Exposed Himself to a 10-Year Old Girl. During a time when speaking of sexual predators was extremely subtle at best comes a brutally honest book written nearly forty years ago. Lance Rentzel was…
Erving Goffman, one of the leading sociologists of the 20th century wrote many groundbreaking books and articles. This review examines his book “Interaction Ritual”, and examines behavior in social situations. “Society is an insane asylum run by the inmates.” Erving…