1st Edition

The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies

Edited By Michael Hviid Jacobsen, Greg Smith Copyright 2022
454 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

454 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

454 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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