Product Description: 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...read more
9780202309712 | Aldine De Gruyter, August 8, 2007, cover price $44.95 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: 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...read more
9780385000161 | Reprint edition (Anchor Books, July 1, 1990), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals.
Product Description: In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance. He shows us exactly 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...read more
9780844670171, titled "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" | Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1999, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance.
9780879510145 | Viking Pr, January 1, 1974, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: In what the General Practitioner called 'this intelligent searching work', the author of "Stigma" and "Asylums" presents an analysis of the structures of social encounters from the perspective of the dramatic performance.
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9780385094023, titled "The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life" | Anchor Books, June 1, 1959, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Parallels the roles assumed by people in their daily interactions with the performance of actresses and actors on a stage
Product Description: "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...read more
Product Description: 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...read more
9781557868947 | Blackwell Pub, July 14, 1997, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist.
Probes the ways in which advertising portrays male-female roles and relationships, probing discrepancies between natural social behavior and images perpetuated in advertisements and commercials
9780674341913 | Harvard Univ Pr, April 1, 1979, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: Probes the ways in which advertising portrays male-female roles and relationships, probing discrepancies between natural social behavior and images perpetuated in advertisements and commercials
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9780061320767 | Revised edition (Harpercollins College Div, February 1, 1988), cover price $12.00
9780060906337 | Harpercollins, March 1, 1979, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Probes the ways in which advertising portrays male-female roles and relationships, probing discrepancies between natural social behavior and images perpetuated in advertisements and commercials
9780783722658 | Books on Demand, January 31, 1979, cover price $30.00
9780671622442 | Reissue edition (Touchstone Books, June 15, 1986), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Analyzes the feelings of the physically deformed and other social outcasts toward themselves and others
9780394706313 | Pantheon Books, February 1, 1982, cover price $14.80 | About this edition: A systematic sociological study of the behavior patterns characteristic of human interaction in social settings
Product Description: 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...read more
9780812211122 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, June 1, 1981, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges.
Product Description: The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term "strategic interaction" to describe gamelike events in which an individual's situation is fully dependent on the move of one's opponent and in which both players know this and have the wit to use this awareness for advantage...read more
9780812210118 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 1, 1970, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction.