Had the New President, So I Said, OK, Erving, I Am Sending Over a Reporter

This interview with Russell Dynes, professor emeritus at the Universityof Delaware, was recorded over the phone on February 4, 2009. Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, after which Dr. Dynes edited the transcript and gave his approval for posting the present version in the Erving Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”

Communication Conduct in an Island Community

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The remarkable study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life

Communication Conduct in an Island Community

Canadian-born Erving Goffman (1922–1982) was the twentieth century’s most important sociologist writing in English. His 1953 dissertation is published here for the first time, on the hundredth anniversary of his birth. The remarkable study, based on fieldwork on a remote Scottish island, presents in embryonic form the full spread of Goffman’s thought. Framed as a “report on a study of conversational interaction,” the dissertation lingers on the modest talk of island “crofters.” It is trademark Goffman: ambitious, unconventional in form, and brimmed with big-picture insight. The thesis is that social order is made and re-made in communication—the “interaction order” he re-visited in a famous and final talk before his 1982 death. The dissertation is, as Yves Winkin writes in a new introduction, the “Rosetta stone for his entire work.” It was here, in 360 dense pages, that Goffman revealed, quietly, his peerless sensitivity to the invisible wireframes of everyday life

Female gender themes in women\u27s magazines: A content analysis testing and extending themes uncovered by Erving Goffman

This study is based on the ideas and studies of Erving Goffman (1922-1982), an influential sociologist and communications scholar (Manning, 1992). Most prior scholars, such as McLaughlin (1999) and Reichert (2003), have chosen to simply repeat and reaffirm Goffman\u27s themes, while largely ignoring that both times and society have changed. Thus, this study proposes not only to repeat Goffman\u27s methods, but also to extend and retest his findings in the modern day. A quantitative content analysis will be employed, using the following women\u27s magazines: Cosmopolitan, In Style, Allure, Glamour, and Marie Claire. The replication of this study is imperative in order to better understand modern advertising themes and to help future scholars understand and study advertisements. Although the study serves as a simple replication of a previous study conducted in the late 1970s, the findings will provide a new basis for understanding advertisements in modern times

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Erving Goffman as a Pioneer in Self-Ethnography? The “Insanity of Place” Revisited*

This paper was presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Atlanta, August 14, 2010. I wish to express my profound gratitude to all those who have helped preserve the memory of Erving Goffman by contributing a memoir to the Erving Goffman Archives. I am especially grateful to Frances Goffman Bay, Esther Besbris, and Marly Zaslov for providing family documents and invaluable recollections about Erving Goffman’s formative years, as well as to EGA board members whose practical assistance and good cheer sustained me throughout this project

Teoría microsocial de los símbolos literarios : el análisis del cambio sociocultural como desafío del siglo XXI

Nuestro mundo en el siglo XXI cambia velozmente, la literatura es especialmente sensible a las dinámicas sociales y las expresa, estéticamente, con profundidad y claridad. En este trabajo propongo un enfoque microsocial del análisis de los símbolos literarios para la interpretación de las representaciones del cambio sociocultural en las obras y para la reafirmación de la literatura como expresión y agente de la dinámica sociocultural, me apoyo para ello básicamente en la microsociología de Erving Goffman.Our world is changing fast XXI century, literature is particularly sensitive to the social dynamics and it expresses them aesthetically, with depth and clarity. In this paper I propose a microsociological approach to the analysis of literary symbols for the interpretation of representations of sociocultural change in the literature and for its reaffirmation of literature as an expression and agent of the sociocultural dynamics. I basically support this with the microsociology of Erving Goffman

My Father Used to Refer to Erving as “Goofy Goffman”

This conversation with Eli Bay was recorded over the phone on January 11, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the conversation, Eli Bay edited the transcript and approved posting the present version in the Goffman Archives. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”

Dmitri Shalin Interview with Audrey Wipper about Erving Goffman entitled Goffman Was Very Original from the Beginning, He Had His Own Way of Seeing and He Stuck to It

This conversation with Dr. Audrey Wipper, Professor Emerita at the University of Waterloo, was recorded over the phone on September 23, 2009. After Dmitri Shalin transcribed the interview, Dr. Wipper edited the transcript and approved posting the present version on the web. Breaks in the conversation flow are indicated by ellipses. Supplementary information and additional materials inserted during the editing process appear in square brackets. Undecipherable words and unclear passages are identified in the text as “[?]”