Dining on the frontstage. Photo by Martin Parr/Magnum Pioneering sociologist Erving Goffman realised that every action is deeply revealing of the social norms by which we live Lucy McDonald is a lecturer in ethics at King’s College London. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Moral Philosophy and the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, among others. Think back to the last time you fell over in a public place. What did you do next? Perhaps you immediately righted yourself and carried on exactly as before. I bet you didn’t, though. I bet you first stole a furtive glance at your surroundings to see if … Continue reading The magic of the mundane