The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman

Edited by Michael Hviid Jacobsen

Publication date:

10 January 2023

Publisher

Anthem Press

Dimensions:

229x153mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781839983191

The purpose of the volume—as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press “Companion to Sociology” series—is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman’s continued appeal and relevance within the field of sociology and related social science disciplines. The book engages with some of the major themes and continuing concerns of Goffman’s sociology. The chapters included in the volume deal with some important aspects of Goffman’s life and work that made him into the enigma that he was.

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Living Legacy of Erving Goffman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter One Framing Goffman: Master of Disguise or Conspiring Magician?, Susie Scott; Chapter Two The Legacy of Erving Goffman’s Work: Cashor Primogeniture?, Philip Manning; Chapter Three Goffman’s Methods and Metaphors, Paul Atkinson and Martyn Hammersley; Chapter Four Goffman and the “Situation” in Sociology, Gary D. Jaworski; Chapter Five Interaction Order Controversies, Greg Smith; Chapter Six The World “Outside” the Interaction Order: Exploring Erving Goffman’s (Rather Limited) Relationship to European Social Theory, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter Seven Erving Goffman’s Contribution to a General Theory of Interpersonal Behavior, Jonathan H. Turner; Chapter Eight Playing for Meaning: Erving Goffman on Stakes, Pools, and Competitive Constructions of Meaning, Michael Dellwing; Chapter Nine Erving Goffman as Criminologist: Encounters, Dramaturgy, and Drift, Black Hawk Hancock and Roberta Garner; Chapter Ten Goffman’s Politics: Rebel With(out) a Cause?, Stacey Hannem; Afterword Maps, Masks, Meshes, Misses, and More: Metaphors in Search of Understanding Erving Goffman and Society, Gary T. Marx; Contributors; Index

The Anthem Companions to Sociology offers wide ranging and masterly overviews of the works of major sociologists. The volumes in the series provide authoritative and critical appraisals of key figures in modern social thought. These books, written and edited by leading figures, are essential additional reading on the history of sociology. —Gerard Delanty, Professor of Sociology, University of Sussex, Brighton