Outputs (10)

Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism (2021)
Book Chapter

As a sociological perspective, dramaturgy takes seriously the similarities between life and theatre. It is ineluctably associated with Erving Goffman’s 1959 book The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and its central notion of impression managemen... Read More about Dramaturgical frameworks and interactionism.

Ethnomethodology and the visual : practices of looking, visualization, and embodied action (2020)
Book Chapter

The chapter considers the relevance of ethnomethodology for visual studies through an examination of selected studies. Ethnomethodology’s distinctive contribution to visual studies arises from its unremitting concern to analyse the specific details o... Read More about Ethnomethodology and the visual : practices of looking, visualization, and embodied action.

Passing (2019)
Book Chapter
Smith, G. (2019). Passing. In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology (1-2). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781405165518.wbeosp006.pub2

The concept of passing originates in popular and legal discourses of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries about relations between black and white people in the United States. Passing as an analytic concept in sociology owes much to the work o... Read More about Passing.

Misgivings about Goffman : social structure, power and politics in the work of Erving Goffman (2019)
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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.

Georg Simmel : interactionist before symbolic interactionism? (2017)
Book Chapter

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)
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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

Erving Goffman (2011)
Book Chapter

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.

Goffman, Erving (1922–1982) (2007)
Book Chapter

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)
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