The Goffman Reader
Blackwell Readers
1. Edition May 1997
368 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
The Goffman Reader aims to bring the most complete collection of Erving Goffman's (1922-1982) writing and thinking as a sociologist. Among the most inventive, unique and individualistic of thinkers in American sociology, his works first appeared in the early 1950's at a time when a more formal, traditional sociology dominated the scene. In this collection, Goffman's work is arranged into four categories: the production of self, the confined self, the nature of social life, and the framing of experience. Through this arrangement, readers will not only be presented with Goffman's thinking in chronological order, but also with a framework of analysis that clearly introduces the social theoretical ideas by which Goffman shaped the direction of sociological thought through the late twentieth century.
Part I: The Production of Self.
Part II: The Nature of Social Life.
Part III: The Confined Self.
Part IV: Frames and the Organization of Experience.
Bibliography: Erving Goffmans Writings Bibliography: Secondary
Literature.
of his writings by Charles Lemert and Ann Branaman, those familiar
with Goffman can be stimulated once more." Charles Edgley,
Oklahoma State University
"As readers go, this one, like the genius it celebrates, is
truly something special." Charles Edgley, Oklahoma State
University
University. He is Series Editor for the Blackwell series
Twentieth Century Social Thought and has published widely in
the areas of social theory, culture and race.
Ann Branaman teaches at Pennsylvania State University
where she is completing her doctoral studies in sociology and
philosophy.
