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The Social Thought of Erving Goffman
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September 2014 | 248 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar sociology. Goffman’s ideas continue to influence scholars in various fields and have also attracted many readers outside conventional academia. Goffman’s overall research agenda was the exploration of what he termed the interaction order—that is, the micro social order that regulates the co-mingling of people in each other’s immediate presence. He coined several new concepts (face-work, impression management, role distance, civil inattention, etc.) with which to grasp and understand the complexities and basic social restructuring of everyday life, many of which are now part of sociology’s standard vocabulary.

 
Introduction
 
Chapter 1: The Life and Times of Erving Goffman
 
Chapter 2: Reading Goffman "Backwards"
 
Chapter 3: Goffman’s "Mixed Methods"
 
Chapter 4: Goffman’s Sociology of Everyday Life Interaction
 
Chapter 5: Goffman’s Sociology of Deviance
 
Chapter 6: Goffman and the Self
 
Chapter 7: Goffman on Frames, Genderisms, and Talk
 
Chapter 8: Reading Goffman "Forward"
 
Chapter 9: The Legacy of Erving Goffman
 
Chapter 10: Further Readings
 
Glossary

Sample Materials & Chapters

Chapter 4

Chapter 8


Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (born 1971) is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published many titles as author or editor, including The Transformation of Modernity (Ashgate, 2001), Erving Goffman (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman (Ashgate 2008), Public Sociology (Aalborg University Press, 2009), Encountering the Everyday (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), The Contemporary Goffman (Routledge, 2010), Utopia: Social Theory and the Future (Ashgate, 2013), Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences (Ashgate, 2013), Deconstructing Death (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013), and The... More About Author

Soren Kristiansen

Søren Kristiansen (born 1971) is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has, as author or editor, published several titles on the work of Erving Goffman, including Kreativ sociologi (Aalborg University, 2000), Erving Goffman (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), and Mikrosociologi og social samhandling (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2004) and numerous articles in Danish and international journals. In recent years, he has turned his attention toward the sociology of gambling. More About Author

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