Erving Goffman / Tom Burns.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burns, Tom, 1913-2001, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.

Goffman, Erving.

Sociologists--United States--Biography.

Sociologists.

Social interaction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (397 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' - are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern

Contents:

Cover; Erving Goffman; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Social Order-Interaction Order-Interaction Order; 3. Involvement, Interdependence, and Alienation; 4. Friends, Polite Fictions, and Enemies; 5. Acting Out; 6. ""Normalisation""; 7. ""Abnormalisation""; 8. Grading and Discrimination; 9. Realms of Being; 10. Through The Looking-Glass; 11. Towards A Rhetoric of Talk; 12. Talk and Its Audiences; 13. Loose Ends, and Some Connections; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-92137-3

1-134-92138-1

1-280-33822-9

0-203-20550-2

9780203205501

OCLC:

475885473