The Goffman Reader

by Lemert, Charles; Branaman, Ann

• ISBN13: 9781557868947
• ISBN10: 1557868948
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1997-07-07
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in chronological order, but also with a framework of analysis that clearly introduces the social theoretical ideas by which Goffman shaped the direction of sociological thought through the late twentieth century.

Author Biography

Charles Lemert is a Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University. He is Series Editor for the Blackwell series Twentieth Century Social Thought and has published widely in the areas of social theory, culture and race.

Ann Branaman teaches at Pennsylvania State University where she is completing her doctoral studies in sociology and philosophy.

Table of Contents

"Goffman"

Goffman's Social Theory

The Production of Self

Self Claims On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure

Self-Presentation The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

The Self as Ritual Object The Nature of Deference and Demeanor

The Self and Social Roles Role Distance

The Nature of Social Life

Social Life as Drama The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life

Social Life as Ritual On Face-Work The Structure and Function of Situational Properties Supportive and Remedial Interchanges

Social Life as Game Fun in Games Where the Action Is Strategic Interaction

The Confined Self

Status, Territory, and the Self Territories of the Self

The Mortified Self On the Characteristics of Total Institutions The Moral Career of the Mental Patient

The Stigmatized Self Stigma

The Recalcitrant Self The Underlife of a Public Institution

Frames and the Organization of Experience

Frame Analysis Frame Analysis

Frame Analysis of Talk Felicitys Condition

The Frame Analysis of Gender The Arrangement Between the Sexes Gender Displays

Social Interaction and Social Structure

The Neglected Situation

The Interaction Order

Bibliography

Erving Goffmans Writings

Bibliography

Secondary Literature

Acknowledgements

Index

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