What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how tourist settings structure social space to generate impressions of authenticity through the lens of Erving Goffman's front versus back region framework.

November 1, 1973American Journal of Sociology

Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings

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DMDean MacCannellUniversity of California, Davis

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Qualitative analysis reveals staged back-region spaces in tourist settings, suggesting authentic experiences are constructed along a spatial continuum.

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To examine how tourist settings structure social space to generate impressions of authenticity through the lens of Erving Goffman's front versus back region framework.
Qualitative analysis of traveler accounts using Erving Goffman's front versus back region sociological model.
Structural examination of tourist establishment layouts and spatial divisions.
Tourists actively attempt to penetrate back regions of host settings to access perceived intimacy and authentic experiences.
Tourist environments are intentionally designed to stage back-region access, placing transitional spaces between the front and back to simulate authenticity.
Goffman's front-back division operates empirically as an adjustable continuum of staged intermediate spaces rather than a binary dichotomy.

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Dean MacCannell (1973) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69d71e30cd480cb7e5f50892 https://doi.org/10.1086/225585

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Qualitative analysis reveals staged back-region spaces in tourist settings, suggesting authentic experiences are constructed along a spatial continuum.

Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings

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Staged Authenticity: Arrangements of Social Space in Tourist Settings

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