The story of the nearest relative : shifts in footing in dramaturgical replayings (2019)
Journal Article
Morriss, L., & Smith, G. (2019). The story of the nearest relative : shifts in footing in dramaturgical replayings. Qualitative Sociology Review, 15(2), 74-88. https://doi.org/10.18778/1733-8077.15.2.06

The utility of Goffman’s thinking about conversational interaction to illuminate features of a research interview between one of the two authors (LM) and a fellow social work professional is assessed. We use this case to explore aspects of Goffman’s... Read More about The story of the nearest relative : shifts in footing in dramaturgical replayings.

Misgivings about Goffman : social structure, power and politics in the work of Erving Goffman (2019)
Book Chapter
Smith, G., & Jacobsen, M. (2019). Misgivings about Goffman : social structure, power and politics in the work of Erving Goffman. In M. Jacobsen (Ed.), Critical and Cultural Interactionism: Insights from Sociology and Criminology (12-29). London: Routledge

The purpose of this chapter is to excavate and explore some of the critical potential in the work of Erving Goffman. Even though Goffman is often depicted as an apolitical microsociologist with no genuine understanding of power or social conflict, th... Read More about Misgivings about Goffman : social structure, power and politics in the work of Erving Goffman.

Editors' introduction (2017)
Journal Article
Ball, M., & Smith, G. (2017). Editors' introduction. International Review of Qualitative Research, 10(2), 119-127. https://doi.org/10.1525/irqr.2017.10.2.119

In the contemporary world visual data are found in a range of forms and formats and in a variety of practical empirical contexts. Our Introduction considers the growth of visual studies in recent decades and its increasing focus upon practices of vis... Read More about Editors' introduction.

Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism? (2017)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2017). Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?. In M. Jacobsen (Ed.), The Interactionist Imagination: Studying Meaning, Situation and Micro-Social Order (41-70). London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58184-6_2

Georg Simmel was the first great figure in sociology’s classical tradition to set out a distinctive conception of society not as a supra-individual structure but as a series of enabling and constraining interactions and associations among human being... Read More about Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism?.

Interactionism, Symbolic (2015)
Book Chapter
Dennis, A., & Smith, G. (2015). Interactionism, Symbolic. In International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition, (352-356). Oxford: Elsevier

Symbolic interactionism (SI) is a distinctive sociological perspective that stresses the analytic centrality of investigating the meanings people give to their activities. Originating in US pragmatist philosophy and its uptake by staff and graduate s... Read More about Interactionism, Symbolic.

Comment devenir un chercheur interstitial : Lloyd Warner, premier mentor d’Erving Goffman (2013)
Book Chapter
Smith, G., & Winkin, Y. (2013). Comment devenir un chercheur interstitial : Lloyd Warner, premier mentor d’Erving Goffman. In D. Cefai, S. Laugier, & L. Perreau (Eds.), Erving Goffman et l'ordre de l'interaction. Paris, France: Presses Universitaires de France

Flu frames (2013)
Journal Article
Staniland, K., & Smith, G. (2013). Flu frames. Sociology of Health and Illness, 35(2), 309-324. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9566.2012.01537.x

This article investigates how the frame concept was used in media studies of the 2009 flu pandemic representation. We examine how frame (or framing) analysis has illuminated sociological features of these depictions and how the frame concept facilita... Read More about Flu frames.

Introducing cultural studies (3rd edition) (2012)
Book
Longhurst, B., Smith, G., Bagnall, G., Crawford, G., Ogborn, M., Baldwin, E., & McCracken, S. (2012). Introducing cultural studies (3rd edition). Pearson

Erving Goffman (2011)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2011). Erving Goffman. In G. Ritzer, & J. Stepnisky (Eds.), The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists (125-154). Oxford, UK: Wiley Blackwell

Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significant updates and revisions to the original Blackwell Companion published a decade ago.

Introducing cultural studies (2nd edition) (2008)
Book
Longhurst, B., Smith, G., Bagnall, G., Crawford, G., Ogborn, M., Baldwin, E., & McCracken, S. (2008). Introducing cultural studies (2nd edition). Harlow, UK: Pearson Education

Goffman, Erving (1922–1982) (2007)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2007). Goffman, Erving (1922–1982). In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. New York: Blackwell. https://doi.org/10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x

This entry outlines Goffman’s biography, sketches the importance of the intellectual and social contexts provided by the universities of Toronto and Chicago where Goffman studied in the 1940s and 1950s, and summarizes his major substantive contributi... Read More about Goffman, Erving (1922–1982).

Technologies of realism? Ethnographic uses of photography and film (2007)
Book Chapter
Smith, G., & Ball, M. (2007). Technologies of realism? Ethnographic uses of photography and film. In P. Atkinson, S. Delamont, A. Coffey, J. Lofland, & L. Lofland (Eds.), Handbook of ethnography (302-319). London: SAGE Publications

Erving Goffman (2006)
Book
Smith, G. (2006). Erving Goffman. London: Routledge

Decades 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 b... Read More about Erving Goffman.

Enacted others: specifying Goffman's phenomenological omissions and sociological accomplishments (2005)
Journal Article
Smith, G. (2005). Enacted others: specifying Goffman's phenomenological omissions and sociological accomplishments. Human Studies, 28(4), 397-415. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-005-9006-1

Erving Goffman's distinctive contribution to an understanding of others was grounded in his information control and ritual models of the interaction process. This contribution centered on the forms of the interaction order rather than self-other rela... Read More about Enacted others: specifying Goffman's phenomenological omissions and sociological accomplishments.

Racing against time? Aspects of the temporal organization of the runner's world (2002)
Journal Article
Smith, G. (2002). Racing against time? Aspects of the temporal organization of the runner's world. Symbolic Interaction, 25(3), 343-362. https://doi.org/10.1525/si.2002.25.3.343

Drawing on documentary sources and participant observation, I seek to specify salient temporal characteristics of the social world of running. Extant analyses seem preoccupied with criticizing running temporality for reproducing, in a sporting contex... Read More about Racing against time? Aspects of the temporal organization of the runner's world.

Introducing cultural studies (1999)
Book
Baldwin, E., Longhurst, B., McCracken, S., Ogborn, M., & Smith, G. (1999). Introducing cultural studies. Hemel Hempstead: Prentice Hall Europe

Ex-offender perceptions of criminal opportunities (theft from a motor vehicle) in Blackfriars
Report
Coulton, J., Jackson, W., Jeffery, R., Patel, T., Dennis, A., & Smith, G. Ex-offender perceptions of criminal opportunities (theft from a motor vehicle) in Blackfriars

Eighteen ex-offenders and 24 students were interviewed about their experiences as perpetrators, victims and beneficiaries of acts of theft. The project specifically addressed the crime of theft from or of a motor vehicle (TMV) in the inner-city area... Read More about Ex-offender perceptions of criminal opportunities (theft from a motor vehicle) in Blackfriars.