| Line | Goffman | Bernstein |
| l. 1 | rooms, suites of rooms, buildings, or plants | rooms, suites of rooms, buildings, plants |
| l. 4 | such as locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs, water, forests, or moors. | such as locked doors, high walls, barbed wire, cliffs, water, forests, moors. |
| l. 5 | conflicts, discreditings, and failures | conflicts, discreditings, failures |
| l. 6 | or assimilation. If cultural change | of assimilation. If cultural change |
| l. 7 | the outside. Thus, if the inmate's stay | the outside. Thus, if the inmates stay |
| l. 11 | jails, penitentiaries, P.O.W. camps, and concentration camps | jails, penitentiaries, P.O.W. camps, concentration camps |
| l. 13 | army barracks, ships, boarding schools, work camps, colonial compounds, and large mansions | army barracks, ships, boarding schools, work camps, colonial compounds, large mansions |
| l. 19 | bitter, secretive, and untrustworthy | bitter, secretive, untrustworthy |
| l. 20 | condescending, highhanded, and mean | condescending, high handed, and mean |
| l. 27 | “worry warts,” “nuisances,” “bird dogs,” | “worry warts” “nuisances” “bird dogs” |
| l. 28 | in the attendants' slang | in the attendant's slang |
| l. 42 | they say. Is it | They say. Is it |
| l. 46 | up. Impossible, therefore, to dignify a job | up. Impossible, therefore to dignify a job |
| l. 56 | abasements, degradations, humiliations, and profanations | abasements, degradations, humiliations and profanations |
| l. 71 | Clothing, combs, needle and thread, cosmetics, towels, soap, shaving sets, bathing facilities | clothing, combs, towels, soap, shaving sets, bathing facilities |
| l. 72 | disfigurement. Beatings, shock therapy, or, in mental hospitals, surgery | disfigurement, beatings, shock therapy, surgery |
| l. 82 | beg, importune, or humbly ask | beg, importune, humbly ask |
| l. 87 | relationship. (Similarly, | relationships. (Similarly, |
| l. 89 | every gesture and nuance of expression | every gesture and nuance of error |
| l. 90 | forms, for there | forms, for these |
| l. 95 | his acts | his arts |
| l. 96 | attack. The individual | attacks. The individual |
| l. 100 | sullenness, failure to offer usual signs of deference, sotto voce profaning asides, or fugitive expressions of contempt, irony | sullenness, failure to offer usual signs of deference, sotto voce profaning asides, fugitive expressions of contempt, irony |
| l. 106 | well-oriented, unantagonistic | well-oriented, antagonistic |
| l. 112 | of regimentation and tyrannization | of regulation and tyrannization |
| l. 126 | Any noise, like | any noise, like |
| l. 131 | official, visitor or guard | official, visitor , guard |
| l. 134 | smoking, shaving, going to the toilet, telephoning, spending money, or mailing letters | smoking, shaving, going to the toilet, telephoning, spending money, mailing letters |
| l. 138 | able bodied yet lacking | able yet lacking |
| l. 147 | outside, the adult | outside, the audit |
| l. 153 | over his world—that he is a person | over his world— that he is a person |
| l. 160 | restrictions by renunciations, beatings, by self-flagellations, inquisition by confession | restrictions by renunciation, beating, by self-flagellation, inquisition by confession |
| l. 161 | to talk; on the inside | to talk; on the outside |
| l. 163 | The building of a world | the building of a world |
| l. 166 | cigarettes, candy, and newspapers | cigarettes, candy, newspapers |
| l. 170 | ridicule, vicious ribbing, moderate and sometimes severe corporal punishment | ridicule, vicious ribbing, corporal punishment |
| l. 173 | fights, drunkenness, attempted suicide, failure at examinations, gambling, insubordination, homosexuality, improper leave-taking, and participation in collective riots | fights, drunkenness, attempted suicide, failure at examinations, gambling, insubordination, homosexuality, improper leave-taking, participation in collective riots |
| l. 174 | cussedness, villainy, or "sickness," | cussedness, villainy, or "sickness" |
| l. 176 | "the angles," | "the angles" |
| l. 177 | "ins." | "ins" |
| l. 191 | processes, creates | process, creates |
| l. 199 | "done" or "marked" or "put in" or "pulled." | "done" or "marked" or "put in" or "pulled" |
| l. 202 | dead and heavy-hanging | dead and heavyhanging |
| l. 203 | field games, dances, orchestra or band playing, choral singing, lectures, art classes or woodworking classes, and card playing | field games, dances, orchestra and band playing, choral singing, lectures, art classes or woodworking classes, card playing |
| l. 204 | industrial alcohol, nutmeg, or ginger | industrial alcohol, nutmeg or ginger |
| l. 207 | outside?" This | outside. This |