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Erving Goffman
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Erving Goffman was a Canadian and American sociologist, non-fiction writer, and anthropologist. He was educated at the University of Toronto, the University of Chicago, and the University of Manitoba. Goffman worked as a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
His notable works include The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Strategic interaction, Asylums, and Frame analysis. Goffman was influenced by Ray Birdwhistell and supervised doctoral student Eviatar Zerubavel. He was married to Gillian Sankoff and had a sibling named Frances Bay. Goffman died of cancer in Philadelphia on November 19, 1982, having been born in Mannville on June 11, 1922.
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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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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Mannville
- Place of death
- Philadelphia
- Sibling
- Frances Bay
- Occupation
- anthropologist
- Employer
- University of Pennsylvania
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
- Doctoral student
- Eviatar Zerubavel
- Field of work
- sociology
- Image
- E. Goffman c. 1940.jpg
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- cause of death
- cancer
- date of birth
- 1922-06-11
- date of death
- 1982-11-19
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- manner of death
- natural causes
- name in native language
- Erving Goffman
- topic's main category
- Category:Erving Goffman
- influenced by
- Ray Birdwhistell
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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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