Erving Goffman (1922-1988)

Contributions

Goffman contributed to face-to-face interaction in natural settings and interaction rituals He also contributed to the treatment of Interaction Order.

Professional Life

Erving Goffman was born in 1922 in Manville, Alta. He earned a B.A. from the University of Toronto in1945. He later earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1953. He was a sociologist who was interested in public behavior. Goffman developed a performance-oriented therapy of behavior. He also examined personality changes among inmates of mental asylums and conducted many studies at various institutions. 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.

Major Publications -

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)

- Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience (1986)

- Stigma: Notes on the Management of a Spoiled Identity (1986)

- Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates (1961)

- Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (1985)

- Forms of Talk (1981) - The Goffman Reader (Blackwell Readers) (1997)

- Interaction ritual: essays on face to face behavior (1982) - The Nature of Deference and Demeanor (Reprint Series in Sociology) (1993)

- Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction (1961) - Gender Advertisements (1961, 1979, & 1988)

- Reactions in public: microstudies of the public order (1976)

- Strategic Interaction (1974) - Where the action is: three essays (1970)

Theories and Models - Performance-Oriented Theory

References

http://www.researchresources.net/amazon/ervinggoffman.htm

http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/05185.html

http://sobek.colorado.edu/~marxg/ascervg.html

http://www.runet.edu/~lridener/courses/IMPMGT.HTML