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facade2 CONSTRUCTSSocial frontGOFFMAN · PRESENTATION OF SELFFacade patternGOF · FACADE PATTERN

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Sociology

the idealised front a person presents in social performance through setting, appearance, and manner, often concealing a backstage reality.

In sociology, the facade (Goffman's "front") is the standardised, idealised face a person puts on in a social performance: the setting, appearance, and manner arranged to give others a particular impression, often concealing a backstage reality. Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life analyses social life as staged performance in which actors maintain a front for their audience. The referent is a managed social surface in interaction, not the stone-and-glass front of a building or a software wrapper, though all three are outward faces that hide what lies behind.[1]

Unit
The managed outward impression maintained during a social performance
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Read qualitatively from how people stage setting, appearance, and manner to control the impression others form

Software engineering

A simple interface over a complex subsystem

In software engineering, the facade is a design pattern that provides a single, simplified interface to a larger, more complex subsystem, so client code can use the subsystem without depending on its internal parts. Gamma, Helm, Johnson, and Vlissides's Design Patterns catalogues the facade among reusable object-oriented solutions, aimed at reducing coupling between clients and a subsystem. The referent is a code interface that hides complexity behind one entry point, unrelated to a building's exterior or a person's social front beyond the shared image of a face placed over what is behind it.[2]

Unit
A unified interface object standing in front of a subsystem
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Evaluated by the coupling it removes between client code and a subsystem's internal classes

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References

  1. Goffman, E. (1959). The presentation of self in everyday life. Anchor Books. ISBN 9780385094023
  2. Gamma, E., Helm, R., Johnson, R., & Vlissides, J. (1994). Design patterns: Elements of reusable object-oriented software. Addison-Wesley. ISBN 9780201633610

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