From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls "normal." Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their...
From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship ...
Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This book brings together five of Goffman's essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."
Of lasting value in Goffman's work is his insistence that behavior--verbal or nonverbal--be examined along with the context of that behavior. In all of...
Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. I...
The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in...
The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most in...
The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in...
The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most in...
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time, together lead an enclosed, formally administered round of life. Prisons serve as a clear example, providing we appreciate that what is prison-like about prisons is found in institutions whose members have broken no laws. This volume deals with total institutions in general and, mental hospitals, in particular. The main focus is, on the world of the inmate, not the world of the staff. A chief concern...
A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wid...
Until recently, to be in a "public place" meant to feel safe. That has changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to quickly react to gestural cues from persons in their immediate presence in order to establish their relationship to each other. Through this communication they hope to detect potential danger before it is too late for self-defense or flight. The ability to read accurately the "informing signs" by which strangers indicate their relationship to one another in public or semi-public places without speaking, has become as important as understanding the official...
Until recently, to be in a "public place" meant to feel safe. That has changed, especially in cities. Urban dwellers sense the need to quickly react t...
Anhand verblüffender Beispiele zeigt der Soziologe Goffman in diesem Klassiker das "Theater des Alltags" die Selbstdarstellung, wie wir sie alle - bewußt oder unbewußt - tagtäglich betreiben: Vor Vorgesetzten und Kollegen, in der Familie und vor Freunden.
Anhand verblüffender Beispiele zeigt der Soziologe Goffman in diesem Klassiker das "Theater des Alltags" die Selbstdarstellung, wie wir sie alle - be...
Was in der Irrenanstalt von Görz oder in den Patientenkollektiven versucht wird, ist die Umkehrung jener "moralischen Karriere" des Patienten, die er beschrieben hat. Totale Institutionen sind geschlossene Welten wie Gefängnisse, Kasernen, Internate, Klöster, Altenheime Irrenhäuser. Goffman untersucht das Leben in diesen Institutionen, besonders in den Irrenhäusern und Sanatorien; er zeigt auf, was sie aus den Insassen machen und was diese daraus machen können. Die zentrale These ist, daß der wichtigste Faktor, der einen Patienten prägt, nicht seine Krankheit ist, sondern die...
Was in der Irrenanstalt von Görz oder in den Patientenkollektiven versucht wird, ist die Umkehrung jener "moralischen Karriere" des Patienten, die er...
