Goffman's Legacy

Edited by Javier A. Treviño

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Publication date:

28 July 2003

Length of book:

312 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9780585478883

Erving Goffman (1922-82) was arguably one of the most influential American sociologists of the twentieth century. A keen observer of the interaction order of everyday life, Goffman's books, which have sold in the hundreds of thousands, continue to be widely read and his concepts have permanently entered the sociology lexicon. This volume consists of ten original essays, all written by prominent Goffman scholars, that critically assess Goffman's many contributions to various areas of study, including functionalism, social psychology, ethnomethodology, and feminist theory.

Chapter 1 Foreword
Chapter 2 Introduction: Erving Goffman and the Interaction Order
Chapter 3 1 The Goffman Legacy: Deconstructing/Reconstructing Social Science
Chapter 4 2 The Personal Is Dramaturgical (and Political): The Legacy of Erving
Chapter 5 3 Interaction and Hierarchy in Everyday Life: Goffman and Beyond
Chapter 6 4 Much Ado About Goffman
Chapter 7 5 Of Kindred Spirit: Erving Goffman's Oeuvre and Its Relationship to Georg Simmel
Chapter 8 6 Blumer, Goffman, and Psychoanalysis
Chapter 9 7 Goffman as Microfunctionalist
Chapter 10 8 Framing and Cognition
Chapter 11 9 Orders of Interaction and Intelligibility: Intersections Between Goffman and Garfinkel by Way of Durkheim
Chapter 12 10 Ethnomethodological Readings of Goffman

Treviño has deftly assembled a wide-ranging and international collection that includes many of the most justly distinguished analysts of Goffman as theorist, as sociologist, as contributor to the analysis of social life, as intellectual. Also representedare fresh, astute voices that demonstrate Goffman's continuing relevance today. Goffman's Legacy will serve present and future students of Goffman well indeed....