Abstract:
Under the influences of globalization and consumerism, human body becomes the highly visible object of management.Goffman focuses on the interactional forms of nonverbal communication, treats body as a crucial symbol system, emphasizing its representational form in the interaction process. On this basis, Goffman discusses bodied information communication, and he considers that organoleptic reception and bodily information convey are important conditions for face-to-face interaction. To Goffman, inter-personal interaction has unavoidable psychobiological characteristics, body is not only the recipient of social meanings, but also its expresser. Therefore, Goffman's view of body has both biological and social characters.Meanwhile, contextualized body practices and body management in the interaction model highlight the activity of body. Goffman's discussions about stigma and total institution are the significant manifestation of body and self-relevance. In general, Goffman's view of body is interaction order-oriented, which includes body idioms, territory of self and ritualized body. Then, Goffman answers the question of how interaction order is possible from the perspective of body sociology.