Author: Erving Goffma
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: life, everyday, presentation
Number of Pages: 259
Published: 1959-06-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0385094027
ISBN-13: 9780385094023

A study of human behavior in social situations and the way we appear to others. Dr. Goffman has employed as a framework the metaphor of theatrical performance. Discussions of social techniques are based upon detailed research and observation of social customs in many regions.

Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Keywords: communication, conduct, forms
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 1981-03-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 081221112X
ISBN-13: 9780812211122

Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman’s interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to certain forms of talk some of the issues that concerned him in his work on frame analysis. This book brings together five of Goffman’s essays: "Replies and Responses," "Response Cries," "Footing," "The Lecture," and "Radio Talk."Of lasting value in Goffman’s work is his insistence that behavior—verbal or nonverbal—be examined along with the context of that behavior. In all of t

Author: Erving Goffma
Publisher: Touchstone
Keywords: identity, spoiled, management, notes, stigma
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1986-06-15
List price: $13.00
ISBN-10: 0671622447
ISBN-13: 9780671622442

Stigma is an illuminating excursion into the situation of persons who are unable to conform to standards that society calls normal. Disqualified from full social acceptance, they are stigmatized individuals. Physically deformed people, ex-mental patients, drug addicts, prostitutes, or those ostracized for other reasons must constantly strive to adjust to their precarious social identities. Their image of themselves must daily confront and be affronted by the image which others reflect back to them. Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes t

Authors:Erving Goffman, Bennett Berger,
Publisher: Northeastern
Keywords: experience, organization, essay, analysis, frame
Number of Pages: 600
Published: 1986-05-30
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 093035091X
ISBN-13: 9780930350918

Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: Free Press
Keywords: organization, gatherings, social, notes, public, places, behavior
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 1966-09-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0029119405
ISBN-13: 9780029119402

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Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: Anchor
Keywords: patients, inmates, mental, situation, essays, social, asylums
Number of Pages: 386
Published: 1961-11-10
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0385000162
ISBN-13: 9780385000161

Asylums is an analysis of life in "total institutions"--closed worlds like prisons, army camps, boarding schools, nursing homes and mental hospitals. It focuses on the relationship between the inmate and the institution, how the setting affects the person and how the person can deal with life on the inside.

Author: Erving Goffman
Publisher: Pantheon
Keywords: face, behavior, essays, ritual, interaction
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1982-01-12
List price: $12.75
ISBN-10: 0394706315
ISBN-13: 9780394706313