Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman
ISBN-10
0761968636
ISBN-13
9780761968634
Series
Erving Goffman
Pages
1688
Language
English
Published
2000-12-19
Publisher
SAGE Publications Limited
Authors
Gary Alan Fine, Gregory W. H. Smith

Description

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was an inspirational thinker, and one of the giants of 20th century sociology. Several of his books, notably The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Asylums (1961), Relations in Public (1963), Stigma (1963) and Gender Advertisements (1979) are acknowledged as modern classics. Goffman fundamentally revised how we think of social life. After him, the study of social encounters, behavior in public, the construction and deconstruction of the self, stigma and forms of everyday communication, were never the same again. Without being obviously attached to any discrete research tradition, Goffman drew from the best thought on social interaction, applied it in his fieldwork, and produced a richly satisfy

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