ABSTRACT

Whatever the degree of organization, however, each primary frame allows its user to locate, perceive, identify, and label a seemingly infinite number of concrete occurrences defined in its terms.

—Goffman (1974, p. 21)

Far from being able to say that men classify quite naturally, by a sort of necessity of their individual understandings, we must on the contrary ask ourselves what could have led them to arrange their ideas in this way, and where they could have found the plan of this remarkable disposition.

—Durkheim and Mauss (1903/1963, p. 9)