The Social Thought of Erving Goffman

Michael Hviid Jacobsen (born 1971) is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has published many titles as author or editor, including The Transformation of Modernity (Ashgate, 2001), Erving Goffman (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), The Sociology of Zygmunt Bauman (Ashgate 2008), Public Sociology (Aalborg University Press, 2009), Encountering the Everyday (Palgrave/Macmillan, 2009), The Contemporary Goffman (Routledge, 2010), Utopia: Social Theory and the Future (Ashgate, 2013), Imaginative Methodologies in the Social Sciences (Ashgate, 2013), Deconstructing Death (University Press of Southern Denmark, 2013), and The Poetics of Crime (Ashgate, 2014).Søren Kristiansen (born 1971) is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark. He has, as author or editor, published several titles on the work of Erving Goffman, including Kreativ sociologi (Aalborg University, 2000), Erving Goffman (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2002), and Mikrosociologi og social samhandling (Hans Reitzels Forlag, 2004) and numerous articles in Danish and international journals. In recent years, he has turned his attention toward the sociology of gambling.

• IntroductionChapter 1: The Life and Times of Erving GoffmanChapter 2: Reading Goffman "Backwards"Chapter 3: Goffman’s "Mixed Methods"Chapter 4: Goffman’s Sociology of Everyday Life InteractionChapter 5: Goffman’s Sociology of DevianceChapter 6: Goffman and the SelfChapter 7: Goffman on Frames, Genderisms, and TalkChapter 8: Reading Goffman "Forward"Chapter 9: The Legacy of Erving GoffmanChapter 10: Further ReadingsGlossary