000			01422nam a2200217Ia 4500
999			_c77772 _d77772
005			20220105195456.0
008			200204s9999 xx 000 0 und d
020			_a9780415355919
082			_a301.092 SMI
100			_a"Smith, Greg"
245		0	_aErving goffman
260			_aLondon
260			_bRoutledge
260			_c2006
300			_a145p.
365			_b 15.99
365			_dRS
520			_aDecades after his death, the figure of Erving Goffman (1922–82) continues to fascinate. Perhaps the best-known sociologist of the second half of the twentieth century, Goffman was an unquestionably significant thinker whose reputation extended well beyond his parent discipline. A host of concepts irrevocably linked to Goffman's name – such as 'presentation of self', 'total institutions', 'stigma', 'impression management' and 'passing' – are now staples in a wide range of academic discourses and are slipping into common usage. Goffman's writings uncover a previously unnoticed pattern and order in the minutiae of everyday interaction. Readers are often shocked when they recognize themselves in his shrewd analyses of errors, awkwardness and common predicaments. Greg Smith's book traces the emergence of Goffman as a sociological virtuoso, and offers a compact guide both to his sociology and to the criticisms and debates it has stimulated.
650			_aSociologist
942			_cB _2ddc