Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Soren Kristiansen's The Social Thought of Erving Goffman (Social Thinkers PDF

By Michael Hviid Jacobsen,Soren Kristiansen

Part of the SAGE Social philosopher sequence, this e-book serves as a concise and alluring advent to the existence and works of Erving Goffman, the most admired social theorists in postwar sociology. Goffman’s rules proceed to persuade students in quite a few fields and feature additionally attracted many readers outdoor traditional academia. Goffman’s total examine schedule was once the exploration of what he termed the interplay order—that is, the micro social order that regulates the co-mingling of individuals in each one other’s speedy presence. He coined numerous new thoughts (face-work, impact administration, function distance, civil inattention, etc.) with which to know and comprehend the complexities and simple social restructuring of lifestyle, a lot of that are now a part of sociology’s normal vocabulary.

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