Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Record:   Prev Next
Resources
More Information
Bestseller
BestsellerE-book

Title Goffman and social organization : studies in a sociological legacy / edited by Greg Smith.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999.

Item Status

Description 1 online resource (vi, 224 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 17
Routledge studies in social and political thought ; 17.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-215) and index.
Contents Introduction: interpreting Goffman's sociological legacy / Greg Smith -- Erving Goffman : what is a life? The uneasy making of an intellectual biography / Yves Winkin -- Fine romances : two arrangements between the sexes in public places / Carol Brooks Gardner -- Role distance and the negational self / James J. Chriss -- Sundered selves : mental illness and the interaction order in the work of Erving Goffman / William Gronfein -- Ethnographic coats and tents / Philip Manning -- The omnipotence of the actor : Erving Goffman on 'the definition of the situation' / Wes Sharrock -- Reading Goffman on interaction / Rod Watson -- Non-person and Goffman : sociology under the influence of literature / Andrew Travers -- Claiming the text : parsing the sardonic visions of Erving Goffman and Thorstein Veblen / Gary Alan Fine.
Summary This collection brings together many of today's leading sociologists to pursue and build upon the diverse aspects of Goffman's legacy and to discuss key topics of his work.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.
Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.
Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.
Goffman, Erving, 1922-
Goffman, Erving, 1922-1982.
Social structure.
Social structure.
Social interaction.
Social interaction.
Social groups.
Social groups.
Social role.
Social role.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Smith, Gregory W. H., 1950- editor.
Other Form: Print version: Goffman and social organization. London ; New York : Routledge, 1999 0415112044 (DLC) 98035792 (OCoLC)39464742
ISBN 0203296877 (electronic book)
9780203296875 (electronic book)
0203019008 (electronic book)
9780203019009 (electronic book)
0415112044 (Cloth)