| Erving Goffman Four-Volume Set Edition Contributor(s): Fine, Gary Alan (Editor), Smith, Gregory W. H. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0761968636 ISBN-13: 9780761968634 Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd OUR PRICE: $1128.60 Product Type: Boxed Set Published: December 2000 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General |
| Dewey: 301 |
| LCCN: 00712404 |
| Series: Sage Masters in Modern Social Thought |
| Physical Information: 1688 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Erving Goffman (1922-82) was an inspirational thinker, and one of the giants of 20th century sociology. Several of his books, notably The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959), Asylums (1961), Relations in Public (1963), Stigma (1963) and Gender Advertisements (1979) are acknowledged as modern classics. Goffman fundamentally revised how we think of social life. After him, the study of social encounters, behavior in public, the construction and deconstruction of the self, stigma and forms of everyday communication, were never the same again. Without being obviously attached to any discrete research tradition, Goffman drew from the best thought on social interaction, applied it in his fieldwork, and produced a richly satisfy |
Contributor Bio(s): Fine, Gary Alan: - Gary Alan Fine is James E. Johnson Professor of Sociology at Northwestern University. He is a social psychologist, who has conducted a series of microsociological ethnographies of work sites and cultural scenes. His work focuses on the role of group cultures in shaping interaction orders and social structures. He is the author of Tiny Publics: A Theory of Group Action and Culture. |