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The Anthem companion to Erving Goffman / edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Anthem companions to sociology.
- Anthem companions to sociology
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.
- Goffman, Erving.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vi, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- London, UK ; New York, NY : Anthem Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- The purpose of the volume - as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press 'Companion to Sociology' series - is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman's continued importance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines. The book will engage with some of the major themes and continuing concerns of Goffman's sociology. Chapters have been selected based on their scope and their thematic content covering significant aspects of Goffman's life and work, and authors have been selected based on their longstanding interest in and extensive knowledge of Goffman's work.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction The Living Legacy of Erving Goffman
- Chapter One Framing Goffman: Master of Disguise or Conspiring Magician?
- Chapter Two The Legacy of Erving Goffman's Work: Cash or Primogeniture?
- Chapter Three Goffman's Methods and Metaphors
- Chapter Four Goffman and the "Situation" in Sociology
- Chapter Five Interaction Order Controversies
- Chapter Six The World "Outside" the Interaction Order: Exploring Erving Goffman's (Rather Limited) Relationship to European Social Theory
- Chapter Seven Erving Goffman's Contribution to a General Theory of Interpersonal Behavior
- Chapter Eight Playing for Meaning: Erving Goffman on Stakes, Pools, and Competitive Constructions of Meaning
- Chapter Nine Erving Goffman as Criminologist: Encounters, Dramaturgy, and Drift
- Chapter Ten Goffman's Politics: Rebel With(out) a Cause?
- Afterword Maps, Masks, Meshes, Misses, and More: Metaphors in Search of Understanding Erving Goffman and Society
- Contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 17 Oct 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781839983207
- 1839983205
- 9781839983214
- 1839983213
- OCLC:
- 1354207946
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