1st Edition

Erving Goffman

By Greg Smith Copyright 2006
168 Pages
by Routledge

154 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name – such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions',... Read more

1. Goffman’s Project  2. Origins and Emergence  3. Interaction’s Orderliness  4. Framing Experience  5. Asylums  6. Spoiled Identity and Gender Difference  7. Self  8. Methods and Textuality  9. After Goffman

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Smith, Greg