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Erving Manuel Goffman - Dmitri N. Shalin

Erving Manuel Goffman

Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination
Buch | Hardcover
430 Seiten
2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-86180-7 (ISBN)
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This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffman’s career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman’s scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.
Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman’s scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of Russian-Jewish descent, who turned the “Potemkin village” trope into a powerful research program. The present study shows how key turns in Goffman’s career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history. It is based on the materials gathered in the Erving Goffman Archives, a repository curated by the author who has been collecting documents and conducting interviews with Goffman’s relatives, colleagues, and friends. The archival work turned up documents which improve our understanding of Goffman the scholar, the teacher, and the man. The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffman’s scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.

Dmitri N. Shalin is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Democratic Culture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr Shalin is coordinator of Justice & Democracy Forum series, editor of the Social Health of Nevada Report, director of the Erving Goffman Archives and International Biography Initiative, and organizer of international forums on Russian politics and culture. His research interests and publications are in the areas of biohermeneutics, pragmatism, democratic culture, emotional intelligence, and Russian culture and society.

Introduction 1 Leaving the tribe 2 Learning the trade 3 Waxing Academic 4 Coping with madness 5 Taking a gamble 6 Mastering the game 7 Gendering sex 8 Breaking the frame 9 Facing death 10 Conjuring a legacy Conclusion Appendix A: Goffman Archives Appendix B: Immigration Records Appendix C: Photo Gallery Appendix D: Biographical Timeline References

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 20 Halftones, black and white; 20 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 970 g
Themenwelt Literatur Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Sachbuch/Ratgeber Geschichte / Politik
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-032-86180-0 / 1032861800
ISBN-13 978-1-032-86180-7 / 9781032861807
Zustand Neuware
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