Goffman's Legacy

Contributions by Luiz Carlos Baptista, Ann Branaman, James J. Chriss, Norman K. Denzin University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Uta Gerhardt, Charles Lemert University Professor of S, Philip Manning, Anne Warfield Rawls, Mary F. Rogers, Thomas J. Scheff University of California, Gregory W. H. Smith, A Javier Treviño Edited by Javier A. Treviño

Publication date:

04 August 2003

Length of book:

312 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

237x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742519770

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

Georg Simmel remarked that his legacy was like cash, distributed to many heirs, used at will. If so, Erving Goffman's legacy is a string of sparkling, glittering, shimmering jewels, transforming each recipient into a lapidary. The contributors to Goffman's Legacy, among the wisest of our discipline, use the bequest to impressive advantage. We find new facets of Goffman's life and writing, and, so, leave with a charge to shape and polish our own efforts. The depth and beauty of Goffman's work is matched by the range and skill of these assessors.