1st Edition
The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it brings together the work of leading scholars of Goffman’s work to explore the concepts and themes that define Goffman’s analytical preoccupations, examining the ways these ideas have shaped significant fields of study and situating Goffman’s sociology in comparison to some eminent thinkers often linked with his name. Through a series of chapters informed by the same inventive and imaginative spirit characteristic of Goffman’s sociology, the book presents fresh perspectives on his contribution to the field and reveals the value of his thought for a variety of disciplines now increasingly aware of the importance of Goffman’s sociology to a range of social phenomena. A fresh perspective on the legacy of one of sociology’s most important figures, The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in interactionist and micro-sociological perspectives.
Preface and acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction The persisting presence of Erving Goffman
Michael Hviid Jacobsen and Greg Smith
PART I CONCEPTS AND THEMES
Chapter 1 Dramaturgy
Charles Edgley
Chapter 2 Self-presentation
- Impression management in a the digital age
David Shulman
Chapter 3 Ritual
Greg Smith
Chapter 4 Stigma
Stacey Hannem
Chapter 5 Total institutions
Mikaela Sundberg
Chapter 6 Moral career
Susie Scott and James Hardie-Bick
Chapter 7 Face-work
Jim O’Driscoll
Chapter 8 Interaction in public places
Robin James Smith
Chapter 9 Strategic interaction
Gary D. Jaworski
Chapter 10 Frame analysis
Anders Persson
Chapter 11 Re-framing ‘footing’
Jack Sidnell
Chapter 12 The interaction order
M. Michael Rosenberg
PART II FIELDS AND STUDIES
Chapter 13 Goffman and the emotions
- Timely reflections on Erving Goffman as ‘emotion theorist’
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Chapter 14 Goffman and medical sociology
Lee F. Monaghan
Chapter 15 Goffman and communication
Wendy Leeds-Hurwitz and Yves Winkin
Chapter 16 The reception of Goffman’s work in media studies
Peter Lunt
Chapter 17 About ‘face’
- Reconsidering Goffman’s theory of face-work for digital culture
Michael James Walsh
Chapter 18 Goffman and sociolinguistics
Csilla Weninger and J. Patrick Williams
Chapter 19 Goffman and the sociology of the body
Nick Crossley
Chapter 20 A primal scene
- Disability in everyday life
Devon Healey and Tanya Titchkosky
Chapter 21 Goffman and visual studies
Michael L. Schwalbe
Chapter 22 Goffman and gender studies
Chris Brickell
Chapter 23 Goffman and gambling studies
Søren Kristiansen
Chapter 24 Mobilities studies
- Goffman on the move
Ole B. Jensen
Chapter 25 Goffman on police work
- A pragmatic dance in action
Peter K. Manning
Chapter 26 Erving Goffman and the sociology of death and dying
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
PART III COMPARISONS, INTERPRETATIONS AND ASIDES
Chapter 27 Goffman and Elias
- Between deception and embarrassment
Helmut Kuzmics
Chapter 28 Goffman and Garfinkel
- Sociologists of the ‘information order’
Andrew P. Carlin
Chapter 29 Goffman and Foucault
- Framing the micro-physics of power
Robert S. Leib
Chapter 30 Goffman and Giddens
- Discovering a systematic theorist
John Scott
Chapter 31 Ordering Goffman’s oeuvre
- Two addenda
Greg Smith
Chapter 32 Goffman and fieldwork
- Mottke, the thief
Sam Hillyard
Chapter 33 Nothing funny about that!
- Erving Goffman and the (un)humorousness of everyday life
Ryan Mack and Gary Alan Fine
Chapter 34 Learning from Goffman
- Toward a concept-driven transcontextual sociology
Eviatar Zerubavel
Chapter 35 Goffman’s footnotes
- Excavating Erving Goffman’s revealing asides
Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Index
Biography
Michael Hviid Jacobsen is Professor of Sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the editor of The Poetics of Crime; Nostalgia Now; Postmortal Society; and Critical and Cultural Interactionism; and co-editor of The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman; Encountering the Everyday; The Transformation of Modernity; Utopia: Social Theory and the Future; Liquid Criminology; Imaginative Methodologies: The Poetic Imagination in the Social Sciences; Towards a Criminology of Emotions; and Exploring Grief: Towards and Sociology of Sorrow.
Greg Smith is Professor of Sociology at the University of Salford, UK. He is the author of Erving Goffman and the co-author of Sociologies of Interaction.
'Jacobsen and Smith’s International Handbook of Goffman Studies undoubtedly constitutes a new milestone in the recognition of Goffman’s work. Anyone who studies this work in depth needs to know and work with this book. Its thorough reading promises a wealth of impulses for the further exploration of Goffman’s work, which will hopefully continue to be an arena where different theoretical positions and controversial views of his publications can meet.' - Karl Lenz, Symbolic Interaction
