The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

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The Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Author : Michael Hviid Jacobsen
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Publisher : SAGE
Language : English
Release Date : 20 August 2014
ISBN : 9781412998031
Pages : 249 pages
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This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.

The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.

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The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

A notable contribution to our understanding of ourselves. This book explores the realm of human behavior in social situations and the way that we appear to others. Dr. Goffman uses the metaphor of theatrical performance as a framework. Each person in everyday social intercourse presents himself and his activity to

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Goffman s Legacy

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon.

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Goffman and Social Organization

Erving Goffman is considered by many to have been one of the most important sociologists of the post-war era. His close observation of everyday life and his concern with the ways in which people play roles and manage the impressions they present to each other led to his pioneering creation

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Goffman s Legacy

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon.

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Erving Goffman

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

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The Goffman Reader

The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated

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Asylums

A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we

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