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Goffman Unbound!

Goffman Unbound!
Author: Thomas J. Scheff
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2015-11-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317258789

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"Thomas Scheff demonstrates why Goffman remains such a key figure for social scientists. Goffman may have been cautious about recognizing the role of emotions in social life, but Scheff boldly and creatively shows why the sociological and the psychological are necessarily intertwined. This is certainly a book for all serious analysts of social behaviour." Michael Billig, Nottingham University "Scheff's critical eye is equal to his subject, shrewdly appreciating Goffman's many virtues while also showing where and how Goffman's thinking needs revision and development. This original and provocative book offers a fresh interpretation of Goffman and will become a benchmark for all subsequent commentary." Greg Smith, University of Salford One of the seminal sociologists of the twentieth century, Erving Goffman revolutionized our understanding of the microworld of emotions and relationships. We all live in this world every day of our lives, yet it is virtually invisible to us. Goffman's genius was to recognize and describe this world as no one had before. The book synthesizes prior scholarly commentary on Goffman's work, and includes biographical material from his life, untangling some of the many puzzles in Goffman's work and life. Scheff also proposes ways of filling gaps and false starts. One chapter explores the meaning of the emotion of love, another of hatred. These and other new directions could facilitate the creation of a microsocial science that unveils the emotional/relational world.


Deciphering Goffman

Deciphering Goffman
Author: Ramon Vargas Maseda
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2017-03-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1317153960

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Challenging the ‘classical’ conception of Goffman’s sociology, this book offers a new interpretation based on a comprehensive examination of previous interpretations and critical assessments of Goffman’s work. Epistemologically, the book acknowledges the important but overlooked influences of both pluralism and particularly of pragmatism, where not only Simmel but also James and Dewey played a pivotal role in his work, thus rooting Goffman’s thought in symbolic interactionism. With attention to two central theoretical principles underlying his work—the pertinence of studying social interaction as given and the need and warrant to study face-to-face interaction in its own right—the author presents a rigorous examination of Goffman’s own writings to uncover the clear and recognizable process of systematization that Goffman followed throughout. In this manner, the book reveals the structure of Goffman’s theory by way of mapping the main themes, topics, concepts, empirical referents, methodological principles and theoretical frameworks relevant to the structure of his thought. A fresh examination of the structure of Goffman’s work that sheds light on the core of his unique approach, this new study of one of the central figures of sociology constitutes an important contribution to scholarship in social theory and the history of sociology.


Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman
Author: Greg Smith
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134252676

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Goffman is a major figure in twentieth century sociology who was also widely influential beyond academic sociology Smith's book offers a compact guide to Goffman's key ideas and the debates they have engendered Books by Goffman continue to sell well, and for this one, there is limited competition - only two other monographs in English on Goffman, both a dozen years old - both longer than the proposed book Smith's book incorporates understandings generated by recent Goffman scholarship


The Contemporary Goffman

The Contemporary Goffman
Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2010-01-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1135168792

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The Contemporary Goffman highlights the continued relevance of Goffman to sociology and related disciplines – to theoretical discussions as well as to substantive empirical research – through contributions dealing with a variety of topics and themes.


The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies

The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies
Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 580
Release: 2022-06-29
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1000604438

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This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman’s sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it brings together the work of leading scholars of Goffman’s work to explore the concepts and themes that define Goffman’s analytical preoccupations, examining the ways these ideas have shaped significant fields of study and situating Goffman’s sociology in comparison to some eminent thinkers often linked with his name. Through a series of chapters informed by the same inventive and imaginative spirit characteristic of Goffman’s sociology, the book presents fresh perspectives on his contribution to the field and reveals the value of his thought for a variety of disciplines now increasingly aware of the importance of Goffman’s sociology to a range of social phenomena. A fresh perspective on the legacy of one of sociology’s most important figures, The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in interactionist and micro-sociological perspectives.


The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

The Social Thought of Erving Goffman
Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2014-08-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1412998034

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This new volume in the Social Thinkers series serves as an introduction to the life, work, and ideas of Erving Goffman.


MISPERFORMANCE : essays in shifting perspectives

MISPERFORMANCE : essays in shifting perspectives
Author: Marin Blaževi?
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 266
Release: 2014-07-02
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9616572369

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MISperformance: essays in shifting perspectives is a collection of essays that address a spectrum of cultural, organizational, technological, ecological, political and daily performances by focusing on the causes and consequences of a misfire, misconception, misrecognition, misnaming, misfitting etc. Aspects and impacts of MISperformance that are susceptible to provoking disturbances, distortions, alternations, abortions, if not disasters within diverse spheres of private and social life, including aesthetic and political practices, are investigated in the light of their potentially both regressive, even tragic outcome, and resistant, even transgressive efficacy, as also the absence or abandonment of any reason in or for performance.


The Interactionist Imagination

The Interactionist Imagination
Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2017-07-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137581840

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This book outlines the history and developments of interactionist social thought through a consideration of its key figures. Arranged chronologically, each chapter illustrates the impact that individual sociologists working within an interactionism framework have had on interactionism as perspective and on the discipline of sociology as such. It presents analyses of interactionist theorists from Georg Simmel through to Herbert Bulmer and Erving Goffman and onto the more recent contributions of Arlie R. Hochschild and Gary Alan Fine. Through an engagement with the latest scholarship this work shows that in a discipline often focused on macrosocial developments and large-scale structures, the interactionist perspective which privileges the study of human interaction has continued relevance. The broad scope of this book will make it an invaluable resource for scholars and students of sociology, social theory, cultural studies, media studies, social psychology, criminology and anthropology.


Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice

Reconstructing Social Theory, History and Practice
Author: Harry F. Dahms
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2016-12-05
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1786354691

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Taken from papers presented at the 2015 International Social Theory Consortium (ISTC), this volume focusses on “Reconstruction”, dedicated to taking account of and interrogating the possibility of picking up the pieces.


Key Sociological Thinkers

Key Sociological Thinkers
Author: Rob Stones
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 478
Release: 2017-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1349931667

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The third edition of this popular and established core textbook provides an invaluable guide to 24 of the most influential thinkers in Sociology. Written by leading academics in the field, Key Sociological Thinkers provides a clear and contextualised introduction to classical and contemporary theory. Each chapter offers an insightful assessment of a different theorist, exploring their lives, works and legacies, and in a much-valued 'Seeing Things Differently' section authors demonstrate how each thinker's ideas can be used to illuminate aspects of social life in new ways. With frameworks for deep learning around group discussion, this continues be an essential text for undergraduate and postgraduate modules on sociological and social theory. New to this Edition: - Four new chapters, on Mead, Du Bois, Latour and Alexander - Five chapters by new authors on existing key thinkers: Durkheim, Merton, Goffman, Bourdieu, and Giddens - A major new introduction - An updated, structured and annotated 'Further Reading' section for each thinker - Extended accounts of 13 additional thinkers who have influenced, or been influenced by, the key thinkers