UID:
almafu_9959227346402883
Format:
1 online resource (397 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-134-92137-3
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1-134-92138-1
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1-280-33822-9
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0-203-20550-2
Content:
Decades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922-82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline.A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name - such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' - are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Cover; Erving Goffman; Copyright; Contents; Author's Note; 1. Preliminaries; 2. Social Order-Interaction Order-Interaction Order; 3. Involvement, Interdependence, and Alienation; 4. Friends, Polite Fictions, and Enemies; 5. Acting Out; 6. ""Normalisation""; 7. ""Abnormalisation""; 8. Grading and Discrimination; 9. Realms of Being; 10. Through The Looking-Glass; 11. Towards A Rhetoric of Talk; 12. Talk and Its Audiences; 13. Loose Ends, and Some Connections; Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-75571-9
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-415-06492-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.4324/9780203205501
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