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	Erving Goffman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 – November 19, 1982), was a sociologist and writer.
		Goffman received his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1945 and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1949 and 1953.
		Goffman was one of the most influential sociologists of the twentieth century, on a par with Weber, Durkheim, Marx, and Mead, in whose footsteps he followed in developing a sociological social psychology.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Erving_Goffman (655 words)

	Symbolic Interactionism
		Erving Goffman (1922-1982) was born and raised in Alberta, and attended the University of Toronto and the University of Chicago.
		Goffman’s focus is on the procedures and processes of social interaction, his actor is also conscious and attributes meaning to symbols and actions of others.
		Goffman notes that he has been using the self in two senses – (i) as image, deriving from the perceptions and responses of others that create the face of the person, and (ii) the actor as a player in a game or set of rituals.
	uregina.ca /~gingrich/f100.htm (3593 words)

	Erving Goffman: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life
		Goffman employs a "dramaturgical approach" in his study, concerning himself with the mode of presentation employed by the actor and its meaning in the broader social context (1959, 240).
		Goffman uses the example of the doctor who is forced to give a placebo to a patient, fully aware of its impotence, as a result of the desire of the patient for more extensive treatment (18).
		Goffman refers to the "shill," a member of the team who "provides a visible model for the audience of the kind of response the performers are seeking," promoting psychological excitement for the realization of a (generally monetary) goal, as an example of a "discrepant role" in the team (146).
	www.hewett.norfolk.sch.uk /curric/soc/goffman.htm (2153 words)

	Biography: Erving Goffman
		Goffman joined the faculty of the University of California at Berkeley in 1958 and than later joined the faculty at the University of Pennsylvania in 1968 where he was the Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology until his death.
		Goffman died of cancer on November 19, 1982 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as a widower with one son.
		Goffman's work has made a major contribution to the study of social interaction and his work is considered an integral addition to the symbolic interactionist paradigm.
	socsci.colorado.edu /SOC/SI/si-goffman-bio.htm (354 words)

	Amazon.com: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life: Books: Erving Goffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Erving Goffman, after receiving his Ph.D. in 1953 at the University of Chicago, first published The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life as a monograph at the Social Sciences Research Centre at the University of Edinburgh in 1956.
		Furthermore, as Goffman himself states in the preface, his 'dramaturgical' perspective applies best to, and his examples are drawn from, "the kind of social life that is organized within the physical confines of a building or plant." This is social psychology applied to a very particular sort of social organization.
		Goffman, however, suggests in his conclusion "that the very structure of the self can be seen in terms of how we arrange for such performances" as he discusses - in other words, that we are our performances, and nothing more.
	www.amazon.com /Presentation-Self-Everyday-Life/dp/0385094027 (3793 words)

	Erving Goffman
		Erving Goffman received his bachelor's degree from the University of Toronto in his native Canada in 1945.
		Asylums is a penetrating analysis of the significance of social structure in producing conforming behavior, especially in environments that Goffman labeled "total institutions," such as mental asylums, prisons and military establishments.
		As Goffman wrote, gender advertisements are "both shadow and substance: they show not only what we wish or pretend to be, but what we are." Gender Advertisements and Stigma both examine the ways we tend to classify others and be classified by them and how we tend to interact based upon those classification.
	www.sociologyprofessor.com /socialtheorists/ervinggoffman.php (674 words)

	Cybersoc: Issue 1 - Erving Goffman,Dramaturgy,and On-Line Relationships
		Goffman has faced much criticism of his work, as his research methods have been somewhat controversial, not following the more traditional and accepted forms of research conducted by classic theorists.
		Goffman's own "claim to fame" was that he was able to observe others, and make sense of those observations.
		Goffman also concludes that there are social rules and rituals practiced by people, and that there is often a background, or given understanding of such rules and rituals.
	www.cybersociology.com /files/1_2_sannicolas.html (3099 words)

	SAGE Publications - Erving Goffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Erving Goffman (1922-82) was an inspirational thinker, and one of the giants of 20th century sociology.
		Goffman became internationally famous during the 1960s and 70s, at a moment when American sociology was growing by leaps and bounds.
		Although Goffman produced one of the most significant and influential of all contemporary approaches to sociology, the application of his ideas to the central questions of the day is often hard to identify.
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	Erving Goffman
		Erving Goffman's primary methodology was ethnographic study, observation and participation rather than statistical data gathering, and his theories provided an ironic insight into routine social actions.
		Paul Drew and Anthony Wootton, editors of Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order, 1988, have collected essays exploring Goffman's "contribution to the study of forms of human association." Erving Goffman, 1992, by Tom Burns, is not a biography of Goffman's life, but a sociological examination of his work.
		Randall Collins edits and introduces essays in Four Sociological Traditions: Selected Reading, 1994, which reprints parts of two of Erving Goffman's essays, 'The Nature of Deference and Demeanor', (1956), and 'Frame Analysis' while explaining that Goffman moved from the tradition of anthropological type sociological study to the micro-sociological perspective of the interactionist tradition.
	www.blackwood.org /Erving.htm (738 words)

	Erving Goffman's Asylums (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		According to him, Goffman viewed the endeavours of individuals to relate to one another and through that create structural and social networks as a burden which they engage in reluctantly in order to guarantee their survival in modern life.
		In this instance, Goffman uses deviancy and crime to demonstrate how society responds to these phenomena by closing ranks and confirming its view of what is 'normal', thus protecting itself from the implicit criticism in the deviant or criminal actions of the individual.
		As Goffman believed that the official self is a product of the demands society makes upon the individual, we can now see that change in the individual can only occur as a result of changes in the social order, and as Goffman had a fixed view of social orders, changes can never occur.
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	Worth's Intro to Gender Ads
		The monograph by Erving Goffman which makes up this issue is to my knowledge the first journal publication presenting some five hundred photographs as part of an analysis of social ceremony.
		While framing Goffman's work within the tradition of Freud and of cultural and content analysis it is necessary-as it is with all frames-to realize that the frame is in Goffman's terms, "a small scale spatial metaphor...
		For Goffman is implying that the way we behave when we can be glimpsed depends in large part on the way we want our social selves to be understood: that we all know how certain behaviors will be interpreted and that we all both act and interpret in that way.
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	AllRefer.com - Erving Goffman (Sociology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Using metaphors of the stage ("dramaturgy"), Goffman describes how ordinary individuals give performances, control their scripts, and enter settings that make up their lives.
		This active notion of "role" is often associated with the symbolist interactionist school of George Herbert Mead, which argues that humans manipulate social situations by selecting appropriate roles and by maintaining some distance from these roles.
		Goffman later studied deviance and the "total institution" in Asylums (1961); he later returned to patterns of communication in Frame Analysis (1974) and Forms of Talk (1981).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/G/Goffman.html (279 words)

	Narrative Psychology: Theorists and Key Figures E-F-G (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Born on June 11, 1922 in Manville, Alberta, Canada, Erving Goffman received an undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto (1945) before pursuing graduate studies in sociology and social anthropology at the University of Chicago.
		Goffman's educational heritage was symbolic interactionism and the interpretative sociological tradition of his graduate alma mater, Chicago.
		Goffman had a keen eye and acute ear for the nuances and subtlties of social intercourse.
	web.lemoyne.edu /~hevern/nr-theorists-efg.html (3958 words)

	Amazon.fr : Stigma: Livres en anglais: Erving Goffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Drawing extensively on autobiographies and case studies, sociologist Erving Goffman analyzes the stigmatized person's feelings about himself and his relationship to "normals" He explores the variety of strategies stigmatized individuals employ to deal with the rejection of others, and the complex sorts of information about themselves they project.
		Erring Goffman was born in Manville, Alberta (Canada) in 1922.
		Goffman received the MacIver Award in 1961 and the In Medias Res Award in 1978.
	www.amazon.fr /Stigma-Erving-Goffman/dp/0140124756 (384 words)

	Goffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Goffman contributed to face-to-face interaction in natural settings and interaction rituals He also contributed to the treatment of Interaction Order.
		Erving Goffman was born in 1922 in Manville, Alta. He earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto in1945.
		Goffman was also a visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, D.C. He was a Professor of Sociology at the University of California at Berkley.
	www.nvc.vt.edu /alhrd/Theorists/Goffman.htm (236 words)

	Erving Goffman: Asylums
		Goffman analyzes the dynamics events that might sometimes occur as a person is committed to a mental hospital for treatment of a non-organic mental illness.
		Goffman also analyzes the events that typically unfold once the person designated as mentally ill takes up residence inside the total institution known as a mental hospital.
		Goffman notes that such a case history, of course, is not an unbiased scientific sampling of a person’s past actions.
	webpages.chhs.niu.edu /stolte/soc260/asylums.htm (1016 words)

	Dell Hymes developed a mnemonic device to describe the elements that make up any speech (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		These "footings" are basically multiple "roles" that the same person may play, switching from one situation to the next, from one identity to the next, form one interlocutor to the next, from one form of control over his or her speech to the next, etc.
		Goffman adds complexity to Dell Hymes’s analysis of participants by re-examining the simple notions of the "speaker" and "hearer" that are involved in every speech interaction.
		Goffman’s second point is that the "footings" that participants in a speech event occupy will necessarily affect the form of their speech.
	socrates.berkeley.edu /~anthro3/DellHymesandErvingGoffman.htm (993 words)

	The Politics of Presentation: Goffman and Total Institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Erving Goffman's essay, "On the Characteristics of Total Institutions," is a classic example of the relation between methods of presenting research and scholarship and their political content, which is never simple and direct.
		Goffman's analytic tack emphasizes the disparity between the kind of place he is talking about and the way he talks about it.
		By using the neutral language he constructs to discuss total institutions, Goffman isolates a class of social objects which have well-defined characteristics in common, characteristics which are empirically observable and can be connected to one another in verifiable patterns.
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	Goffman:
		First, Goffman's early work is focused on the individual self, in a world that at once creates and oppresses it.
		Second, Goffman's work is intensely moral in character, marked by a passionate defense of the self against society.
		Goffman (1956,1973) has described how people negotiate and validate identities in face- to-face encounters and how people establish 'frames' within which to evaluate the meaning of encounters.
	www.csudh.edu /dearhabermas/goffman01.htm (658 words)

	Frame Analysis
		Even though Goffman's seminal work sparked the avalanche of frame analytic over the last three decades, one could reasonably argue that Goffman is today cited mainly for symbolic reasons, as current frame analytic work has little in common with Frame Analysis.
		One of the first reviews of Goffman's work already anticipated the reason for this development: Frame Analysis is simply too ill-defined to be taught to graduate students.
		This paper examines a range of framing literature, from the writings of authors including Erving Goffman, Teun van Dijk, Serge Moscovici, George Lakoff, Alan Johnson, William Gamson, David Snow, Robert Benford and Paolo Donati.
	www.lboro.ac.uk /research/mmethods/resources/links/frames.html (707 words)

	Goffman, Erving - AnthroBase - Dictionary of Anthropology: A searchable database of anthropological texts
		Goffman remarks on the difficulties of controlling the impressions one gives off, and shows that there is often a contradiction between the "giving" and the "giving off" of impressions.
		Later, Goffman's work grew more complex and focused increasingly on the reflexive and contradictory nature of human interaction (1967, 1974).
		He focused on the mutual self-consciousness of interacting subjects, and on such processes as embarrassment, deference and demeanor, and situations in which the actor is "alienated" from interaction.
	www.anthrobase.com /Dic/eng/pers/goffman_erving.htm (337 words)

	Erving Goffman: "On Face-Work"
		In "On Face-Work," Goffman articulates how people negotiate face in everyday social interaction.
		Goffman argues that the flow of events produces face (7).
		While Goffman doesn't bring Mauss into this conversation, there are deep connections between this and Mauss's notions of gifting.
	www.zephoria.org /alterity/archives/2004/11/erving_goffman.html (469 words)

	Institut d'ethnologie, Neuchâtel - 1999 - Séminaire 1- Bibliographie - Goffman
		- On fieldwork / Erving Goffman ; transcribed and ed.
		Beyond Goffman : studies on communication, institution, and social interaction / ed.
		Bock, Philip K. - The importance of Erving Goffman to psychological anthropology / Philip K.
	www.unine.ch /ethno/biblio/1999goffman.htm (462 words)

	Extracts from Erving Goffman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		The final paper, The Medical Model and Mental Hospitalization, turns attention back to the professional staffs to consider, in the case of mental hospitals, the role of the medical perspective in presenting to the inmate the facts of his situation.
		Social establishments - institutions in the everyday sense of that term - are places such as rooms, suites of rooms, buildings, or plants in which activity of a particular kind regularly goes on.
		Goffman E. "The Underlife of a Public Institution: A Study of Ways of Making Out in a Mental Hospital" in Goffman E. Referencing Goffman extracts
	www.mdx.ac.uk /www/study/xgof.htm (2300 words)

	Technology and Privacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Their point of departure is the sociologist Erving Goffman's finely detailed description of the methods by which people project their personae.
		Goffman (1957) argued that personal identity is not a static collection of attributes but a dynamic, relational process.
		Goffman's theory, by helping articulate the nature of the wrongs in such cases, also helps specify how technology might help us avoid them.
	dlis.gseis.ucla.edu /people/pagre/landscape.html (9079 words)

	Goffman Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-08)
		Daniel Goffman's lucid and accessible book examines Ottoman relations with Europe in the Early Modern period.
		Each entry is written in the first person singular to engage readers' interest and a series of exercises and assignments encourages readers to interact with, and write about...
		Erving Goffman (1922-82) is considered to be among the greatest and most inventive of American sociologists.
	www.alibris.com /search/books/author/Goffman (683 words)

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