394 Pages
by
Routledge
394 Pages
by
Routledge
394 Pages
by
Routledge
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Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman. From his first book, The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life (1956), to his last, Forms of Talk (1981), his publications were eagerly awaited and his ideas widely discussed. In 1982 when he died at the age of 60, the response was that a figure of outstanding importance had left the stage of modern sociology. In this... Read more
1. Preliminaries 2. Social Order - Interaction Order 3. Involvement, Interdependence and Alienation 4. Friends, Polite Fictions, and Enemies 5. Acting Out 6. `Normalisation' 7. `Abnormalisation' 8. `Grading and Discrimination' 9. Realms of Being 10. Through the Looking-Glass 11. Towards a Rhetoric of Talk 12. Talk and its Audiences 13. Loose Ends, and Some Connections
Biography
Tom Burns
