The Goffman Reader

by Lemert, Charles; Branaman, Ann

• ISBN13: 9781557868930
• ISBN10: 155786893X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• 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"	ix	(36)
Charles Lemert
Goffman's Social Theory	xlv
Ann Branaman
Part I The Production of Self	1	(42)
1 Self Claims On Cooling the Mark Out: Some Aspects of Adaptation to Failure	3	(18)
2 Self-Presentation The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	21	(6)
3 The Self as Ritual Object The Nature of Deference and Demeanor	27	(8)
4 The Self and Social Roles Role Distance	35	(8)
Part II The Confined Self	43	(50)
5 Status, Territory, and the Self The Territories of the Self	45	(10)
6 The Mortified Self	55	(18)
The Characteristics of Total Institutions	55	(8)
The Moral Career of the Mental Patient	63	(10)
7 The Stigmatized Self Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity	73	(8)
8 The Recalcitrant Self The Underlife of a Public Institution	81	(12)
Part III The Nature of Social Life	93	(54)
9 Social Life as Drama The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life	95	(14)
10 Social Life as Ritual	109	(20)
On Face-work: An Analysis of Ritual Elements in Social Interaction	109	(2)
The Structure and Function of Situational Proprieties	111	(3)
Supportive Interchanges	114	(5)
Remedial Interchanges	119	(10)
11 Social Life as Game	129	(18)
Fun In Games	129	(10)
Where the Action Is	139	(1)
Strategic Interaction	140	(7)
Part IV Frames and the Organization of Experience	147	(116)
12 Frame Analysis Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience	149	(18)
13 Frame Analysis of Talk	167	(34)
Felicity's Condition	167	(25)
Response Cries	192	(9)
14 Frame Analysis of Gender	201	(28)
The Arrangement Between the Sexes	201	(7)
Gender Display	208	(21)
15 Social Interaction and Social Structure	229	(34)
The Neglected Situation	229	(4)
The Interaction Order	233	(30)
Bibliography: Erving Goffman's Writings	263	(2)
Bibliography: Secondary Literature	265	(8)
Acknowledgements	273	(2)
Index	275