All Outputs (23)

Fiction in Goffman (2022)
Journal Article
Smith, G. (2022). Fiction in Goffman. Sociological Review, 70(4), 711-722. https://doi.org/10.1177/00380261221109029

There are no references to creative fiction in Erving Goffman’s founding statement of his sociology of the interaction order, his 1953 Chicago doctoral dissertation ( Communication Conduct in an Island Community). Yet four pages into his first and be... Read More about Fiction in Goffman.

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.

Talking as restorative justice : a conversation analysis of victim-offender meetings (2021)
Thesis
Langford, R. Talking as restorative justice : a conversation analysis of victim-offender meetings. (Thesis). University of Salford

The purpose of this research was to examine the restorative justice meeting as a form of
institutional talk, identifying significant asymmetries in the talk, and acknowledging how this
contributed to achieving restoration. This study used audio-rec... Read More about Talking as restorative justice : a conversation analysis of victim-offender meetings.

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.

The story of the nearest relative : shifts in footing in dramaturgical replayings (2019)
Journal Article

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

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

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

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

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

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

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, second edition (2008)
Book

Includes hot topics such as globalization, youth subcultures, ‘virtual’ cultures, body modification, new media, technologically-assisted social networking and many more

This text will be core reading for undergraduates and postgraduates in a varie... Read More about Introducing cultural studies, second edition.

Introducing cultural studies (2nd edition) (2008)
Book

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)
Book Chapter

Erving Goffman (2006)
Book

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.