By Greg Smith
ISBN-10: 0415355907
ISBN-13: 9780415355902
ISBN-10: 0415355915
ISBN-13: 9780415355919
Decades after his loss of life, the determine of Erving Goffman (1922–82) keeps to fascinate. might be the best-known sociologist of the second one 1/2 the 20th century, Goffman was once an certainly major philosopher whose popularity prolonged way past his father or mother discipline.
A host of thoughts irrevocably associated with Goffman's name – akin to 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression administration' and 'passing' – at the moment are staples in a variety of educational discourses and are slipping into universal utilization. Goffman's writings discover a formerly ignored development and order within the trivialities of daily interplay. Readers are usually stunned once they realize themselves in his smart analyses of mistakes, awkwardness and customary predicaments.
Greg Smith's booklet strains the emergence of Goffman as a sociological virtuoso, and provides a compact advisor either to his sociology and to the criticisms and debates it has stimulated.
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