Books by Erving Goffman

Et af sociologiens og socialpsykologiens helt centrale værker foreligger nu for første gang på dansk.Med teatrets verden som bogens bærende metaforik viser den canadisk-fødte sociolog Erving Goffman, hvordan individet præsenterer sig selv og sine handlinger med henblik på at lede og påvirke omverdenens opfattelse af sin hverdagslige optræden.Oversættelsen er derudover forsynet med en introduktion af Michael Hviid Jacobsen og Søren Kristiansen.

Presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. This title shows us how people use such 'fixed props' as houses, clothes, and job situations; how they combine in teams resembling secret societies; and, how they adopt discrepant roles and communicate out of character.

This book brings together five of Goffman's seminal essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."

The dwarf, the disfigured, the blind man, the homosexual, the ex-mental patient and the member of a racial or religious minority all share one characteristic: they are all socially "abnormal". This a study of of the ways in which a stigmatized person can develop a more positive social identity.

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in natural settings, that class of events which occurs during co-presence and by virtue of co-presence

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The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman explore the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction.