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Goffman and social organization : studies in a sociological legacy / edited by Greg Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social structure.
- Social interaction.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This collection brings together many of today's leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy and to discuss key topics of his work.
- Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: interpreting Goffman's sociological legacy; Erving Goffman: what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography; Fine romances: two arrangements between the sexes inpublic places; Role distance and the negational self; Sundered selves: mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman; Ethnographic coats and tents; The omnipotence of the actor: Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation'; Reading Goffman on interaction; Non-person and Goffman: sociology under the influence of literature
- Claiming the text: parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein VeblenBibliography; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-134-83226-5
- 1-134-83227-3
- 1-280-33284-0
- 0-203-01900-8
- 0-203-29687-7
- 9780203019009
- OCLC:
- 808000727
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