Erving Goffman
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Erving Goffman
Routledge, 1992
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- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780415064927
Description
The first major study of the most successful sociologist of the post war years
Burns - a world class sociologist
Buy this book and you don't need to buy Goffman's original texts!
Table of Contents
1. Preliminaries 2. Social Order - Interaction Order 3. Involvement, Interdependence and Alienation 4. Friends, Polite Fictions, and Enemies 5. Acting Out 6. `Normalisation' 7. `Abnormalisation' 8. `Grading and Discrimination' 9. Realms of Being 10. Through the Looking-Glass 11. Towards a Rhetoric of Talk 12. Talk and its Audiences 13. Loose Ends, and Some Connections
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: pbk ISBN 9780415067720
Description
From his first book, "The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life" (1956), to his last, "Forms of Talk" (1981), Erving Goffman's publications aroused interest and his ideas were widely discussed, and since 1982, when he died at the age of 60, his theories have remained current. In this study, Tom Burns provides an examination of Goffman's work. Burn's arranges Goffman's writings into a series of themes such as "social order", "acting out", "normalization", "abnormalization", "grading and discrimination" and "realms of being", to illustrate the diversity of Goffman's preoccupations. In this way, the author avoids labelling Goffman as a "micro-sociologist" or "symbolic interactionist". Burns shows the meaning and application of Goffman's key concepts and also guides the reader towards an understanding of the direct influences upon Goffman's thought, showing clearly, for example, how Goffman was influenced by Durkheim. This book should be of interest to students of sociology.
Table of Contents
1. Preliminaries, 2. Social Order - Interaction Order, 3. Involvement, Interdependence and Alienation, 4. Friends, Polite Fictions, and Enemies, 5. Acting Out, 6. `Normalization', 7. `Abnormalization', 8. `Grading and Discrimination', 9. Realms of Being, 10. Through the Looking-Glass, 11. Towards a Rhetoric of Talk, 12. Talk and its Audiences, 13. Loose Ends, and Some Connections.
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