Goffman's Legacy

by Treviño, Javier A.; Baptista, Luiz Carlos; Branaman, Ann; Chriss, James J.; Denzin, Norman K.; Gerhardt, Uta; Lemert, Charles; Manning, Philip; Rawls, Anne Warfield; Rogers, Mary F.; Scheff, Thomas J.; H. Smith, Gregory W.; Treviño, A Javier

• ISBN13: 9780742519770
• ISBN10: 0742519775
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-08-04
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon. This volume consists of twelve original essays, all written by prominent Goffman scholars, that critically assess Goffman's many contributions to various areas of study, including functionalism, social psychology, ethnomethodology, and feminist theory.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Goffman's Enigma: Series Editor's Foreword	xi
Charles Lemert
Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order	1	(49)
A. Javier Trevino
The Goffman Legacy: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Social Science	50	(21)
Thomas J. Scheff
The Personal Is Dramaturgical (and Political): The Legacy of Erving Goffman	71	(15)
Mary F. Rogers
Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond	86	(41)
Ann Branaman
``Much Ado about Goffman''	127	(16)
Norman K. Denzin
Of Kindred Spirit: Erving Goffman's Oeuvre and Its Relationship to Georg Simmel	143	(23)
Uta Gerhardt
Blumer, Goffman, and Psychoanalysis	166	(15)
Philip Manning
Goffman as Microfunctionalist	181	(16)
James J. Chriss
Framing and Cognition	197	(19)
Luiz Carlos Baptista
Orders of Interaction and Intelligibility: Intersections between Goffman and Garfinkel by Way of Durkheim	216	(38)
Anne Warfield Rawls
Ethnomethodological Readings of Goffman	254	(30)
Gregory W. H. Smith
Index	284	(9)
About the Contributors	293