Anna is a maintenance worker at an airport. Her primary job is to clean restrooms. Anna feels embarrassed by her job, and she cleans the toilets in a careless and uninterested manner to show that she is above the work she is doing. Erving Goffman would term Anna’s behavior which of these?
A. role distance
B. setting
C. the self
D. personal front
A. role distance
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