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Erving Goffman
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Erving Goffman was a Canadian and American sociologist, anthropologist, and non-fiction writer. Born in Mannville in 1922, he died of cancer in Philadelphia in 1982. He held citizenship in both Canada and the United States. Goffman was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Manitoba, and the University of Chicago. His notable work includes *The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life*.
He was employed by the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. Goffman was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a Guggenheim Fellowship. His doctoral student was Eviatar Zerubavel. He was married to Gillian Sankoff.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1922
- Died
- 1982
- Works
- 69
Top works
- Presentation of Self
- Strategic interaction
- Asylums
- Frame analysis
- Asylums Essays on the Social Situation
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 19
- Total plays
- 32
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The Interaction Order: American Sociological Association, 1982 Presidential Address
· 1983 · cited 2,094x
- On Face-Work
· 1955 · cited 1,675x
- Universal Screening for SARS-CoV-2 in Women Admitted for Delivery
· 2020 · cited 812x
- Footing
· 1979 · cited 765x
- The arrangement between the sexes
· 1977 · cited 629x
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Quotes
- “Approved attributes and their relation to face make every man his own jailer; this is a fundamental social constraint even though each man may like his cell.”
- “I mean this report to serve as a sort of handbook detailing one sociological perspective from which social life can be studied, especially the kind of social life that is organised within the physical confines of a building or plant. A set of features will be described which together form a framework that can be applied to any concrete social establishment, be it domestic, industrial, or commercial.”
- “Society is organized on the principle that any individual who possesses certain social characteristics has a moral right to expect that others will value and treat him in an appropriate way.”
- “In many kinds of social interaction, unofficial communication provides a way in which one team can extend a definite but non-compromising invitation to the other, requesting that and formality be increased or decreased, or that both teams shift the interaction to one involving the performance of a new set of roles.”
- “In recent years there have been elaborate attempts to bring into one framework the concepts and findings derived from three different areas of inquiry: the individual personality, social interaction, and society. I would like to suggest here a simple addition to these inter-disciplinary attempts.”
- “When an individual appears before others, he wittingly and unwittingly projects a definition of the situation, of which a conception of himself is an important part. When an event occurs which is expressively incompatible with this fostered impression, significant consequences are simultaneously felt in three levels of social reality, each of which involves a different point of reference and a different order of fact.”
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Encyclopedic overview
Erving Goffman (/ˈɡɒfmən/; 11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".
In 2007, The Times Higher Education Guide listed him as the sixth most-cited author of books in the humanities and social sciences.
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