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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454910403321

Autore

Burns Tom <1913-2001, >

Titolo

Erving Goffman / / Tom Burns

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992

ISBN

1-134-92138-1

1-280-33822-9

0-203-20550-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 p.)

Disciplina

301/.092

B

Soggetti

Sociologists - United States

Social interaction

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Erving Goffman; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Social Order-Interaction 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; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline.A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name - such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' - are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern