The reading,research,and other preparation that your professor did to get ready for the lecture in your sociology class was done in what Erving Goffman refers to as:
A) breaching
B) master statuses
C) interactional vandalism
D) front regions
E) back regions

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Erving Goffman refers to the areas where people prepare themselves for public presentation or performances as "back regions." In the context of a professor preparing for a lecture, the reading, research, and other preparation would be done in these back regions, away from the audience (students), before the professor enters the "front region" (the classroom) where the performance (lecture) takes place.

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