Goffman and Social Organization - Studies of a Sociological Legacy

List of contents

Notes on contributors, 1. Introduction: interpreting Goffman’s sociological legacy, 2. Erving Goffman: what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography, 3. Fine romances: two arrangements between the sexes in public places, 4. Role distance and the negational self, 5. Sundered selves: mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman, 6. Ethnographic coats and tents, 7. The omnipotence of the actor: Erving Goffman on ‘the definition of the situation’, 8. Reading Goffman on interaction, 9. Non-person and Goffman: sociology under the influence of literature, 10. Claiming the text: parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen, Bibliography, Index

Product details

• Authors: Greg Smith
• Assisted by: Greg Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.02.2014
• EAN: 9780415756419
• ISBN: 978-0-415-75641-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Series: Routledge Studies in Social and Political Thought
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Social Psychology, Society & culture: general, Society and culture: general, Sociology and anthropology