Beyond Goffman : : Studies on Communication, Institution, and Social Interaction / / ed. by Stephen H. Riggins.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1990
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2010
Language:English
Series:Approaches to Semiotics [AS] , 96
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Physical Description:1 online resource (456 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Introduction
  • I. Probing the theory
  • The descent of the ego
  • The anthropology of the interaction order
  • Redefining the situation: Extending dramaturgy into a theory of social change and media effects
  • Is Erving Goffman a phenomenologist?
  • The phenomenology of miscommunication
  • The cross-cultural relevance of Goffman's concept of individual agency
  • Erving Goffman as a precursor to post-modern sociology
  • Reading Goffman: Toward the deconstruction of sociology
  • II. Expanding the Scope: Forms of institutions, forms of language
  • Legal decisions: A frame analytic perspective
  • Making sense of religion by direct observation: An application of frame analysis
  • Gender codes in women's advice books
  • Forms of talk/figures of speech
  • III. Expanding the Scope: Objects, events and communication
  • How to do self with things
  • The power of things: The role of domestic objects in the presentation of self
  • The mediating role of objects in the functioning of social structure: A case study of kwai
  • Erving Goffman and the study of everyday protest
  • Incidents, accidents, failures: The representation of negative experience in public entertainment
  • Subject Index
  • Name Index
  • References to works by Erving Goffman