1. Preliminaries -- 2. Social order-interaction order -- 3. Involvement, interdependence, and alienation -- 4. Friends, polite fictions, and enemies -- 5. Acting out -- 6. "Normalisation" -- 7. "Abnormalisation" -- 8. Grading and discrimination -- 9. Realms of being -- 10. Through the looking-glass -- 11. Towards a rhetoric of talk -- 12. Talk and its audiences -- 13. Loose ends, and some connections.
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This superb study, written by one of the most respected sociologists at work today, is an indispensible guide to the sociology of Erving Goffman. It offers a compact guide to his key ideas and debates.
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Title
Erving Goffman.
International Standard Book Number
0415064929
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Goffman, Erving.
Goffman, Erving,1922-
Goffman, Erving,(1922-1982)
Goffman, Erving.
Goffman, Erving.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Social interaction.
Sociologists-- United States, Biography.
Interaction sociale.
Sociologues-- États-Unis, Biographies.
Biografias de sociologos.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY-- Social Scientists & Psychologists.