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Goffman and social organization : studies in a sociological legacy / edited by Greg Smith.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 17.Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 1999Description: vi, 224 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0415112044
  • 9780415112048
Other title:
  • Goffman and social organisation
  • Goffman and social organisation : Studies in a sociological legacy
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 301.092 22
LOC classification:
  • HM291 .G57 1999
Contents:
Introduction: interpreting Goffman's sociological legacy / Greg Smith -- Erving Goffman: what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography / Yves Winkin -- Fine romances: two arrangements between the sexes in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner -- Role distance and the negational self / James J. Chriss -- Sundered selves: mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman / William Gronfein -- Ethnographic coats and tents / Philip Manning -- The omnipotence of the actor: Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation' / Wes Sharrock -- Reading Goffman on interaction / Rod Watson -- Non-person and Goffman: sociology under the influence of literature / Andrew Travers -- Claiming the text: parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen / Gary Alan Fine.
Summary: "This collection brings together leading sociologists to explore and build upon diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy and discuss key topics of his work. It reveals his contribution to sociology today."--Publisher description.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-215) and index.

Introduction: interpreting Goffman's sociological legacy / Greg Smith -- Erving Goffman: what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography / Yves Winkin -- Fine romances: two arrangements between the sexes in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner -- Role distance and the negational self / James J. Chriss -- Sundered selves: mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman / William Gronfein -- Ethnographic coats and tents / Philip Manning -- The omnipotence of the actor: Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation' / Wes Sharrock -- Reading Goffman on interaction / Rod Watson -- Non-person and Goffman: sociology under the influence of literature / Andrew Travers -- Claiming the text: parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen / Gary Alan Fine.

"This collection brings together leading sociologists to explore and build upon diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy and discuss key topics of his work. It reveals his contribution to sociology today."--Publisher description.

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