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Strategic Interaction by Erving Goffman
Booksplease Price: $26.96The two essays in this classic work by sociologist Erving Goffman deal with the calculative, gamelike aspects of human interaction. Goffman examines the strategy of words and deeds; he uses the term... -
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman 9780385094023
RRP: $20.09Booksplease Price: $14.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385094023Author Erving GoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman 9780241547991
RRP: $17.41Booksplease Price: $12.37One of the defining works of twentieth-century sociology: a revelatory analysis of how we present ourselves to others'The self, then, as a performed character, is not an organic thing ... it is a... -
Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience by Erving Goffman
Booksplease Price: $48.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780930350918Author Erving GoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint -
The Social Thought of Erving Goffman by Soren Kristiansen 9781412998031
Booksplease Price: $57.53Part of the SAGE Social Thinker series, this book serves as a concise and inviting introduction to the life and works of Erving Goffman, one of the most prominent social theorists in postwar... -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman 9780671622442
Booksplease Price: $14.70From the author of The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Stigma is analyzes a person's feelings about himself and his relationship to people whom society calls "normal."Stigma is an illuminating... -
Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary D. Jaworski 9781666936803
Booksplease Price: $114.77Erving Goffman and the Cold War presents a provocative new reading of the work of sociologist Erving Goffman. Instead of viewing him as a "marginal man" or academic outsider, Gary D. Jaworski... -
Encounters; Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction by Erving Goffman 9781614274407
Booksplease Price: $16.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614274407Author Erving GoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 154Imprint -
PsychoPolitics Peter Sedgwick 9780745347226
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $20.42'A powerful and impassioned defence of psychiatry, urging the Left to confront the harsh realities of mental illness' - William Davis, author of The Happiness Industry A new edition of one of the... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker
Booksplease Price: $22.45One of French writer Georges Perec's most famous pieces, "I Remember", consists of 480 numbered paragraphs - each just a few short lines recalling a memory from his childhood. The work has neither a... -
Denial: How We Hide, Ignore, and Explain Away Problems by Jared Del Rosso 9781479847884
RRP: $22.77Booksplease Price: $19.98From climate change to fake news, an entertaining and enlightening look at the widespread phenomenon of denial in our society Donald Trump won the election; climate change isn't real; America is a... -
Down to Earth Sociology: 14th Edition: Introductory Readings, Fourteenth Edition by James M. Henslin 9781416536208
RRP: $32.16Booksplease Price: $28.43For thirty-five years and through thirteen editions, Jim Henslin's Down to Earth Sociology has opened new windows onto the social realities that shape our world. Now in its fourteenth edition, the... -
Thinking Through Fashion: A Guide to Key Theorists by Agn�s Rocamora 9781350376526
Booksplease Price: $96.04A vital update to the definitive guide to fashion and cultural theory, featuring four new chapters and essential revisions throughout in light of key developments in fashion and fashion studies... -
The March Up by Ray L. Smith 9781844134250 [USED COPY]
RRP: $13.40Booksplease Price: $3.82Taking us straight to the front lines, The March Up follows the famed 1st Marine Division on their decisive 1,184 kilometre trek to Baghdad, from first assault to the taking of the city. The 1st... -
The Routledge International Handbook of Goffman Studies by Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9780367750732
RRP: $62.97Booksplease Price: $59.28This book explores the fertility and enigma of Erving Goffman's sociological reasoning and its capacity to shed fresh light on the fundamental features of human sociality. Thematically arranged, it... -
Site Reading: Fiction, Art, Social Form by David J. Alworth 9780691183343
Booksplease Price: $50.17Site Reading offers a new method of literary and cultural interpretation and a new theory of narrative setting by examining five sites-supermarkets, dumps, roads, ruins, and asylums-that have been... -
Goffman and the Media Peter Lunt 9780745688893
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.84Erving Goffman's much-loved works are still widely cited in the field of media and communication. His work has stimulated research on news framing, mass media and social media, inviting new insights... -
Dimensions of Sociological Theory by David J. Cheal 9781403943064
Booksplease Price: $55.42There are many differences of opinion between sociologists about how best to investigate social issues and about the quality of the answers that different questions produce. This book looks at a... -
Stigma: How We Treat Outsiders by Gerhard Falk 9781573928809
RRP: $33.50Booksplease Price: $30.71What is it in human nature that leads us to label some as insiders and stigmatize others as outsiders? Sociologist Gerhard Falk examines the social psychology that motivates this process of... -
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by David Dutton 9781138507463
RRP: $79.05Booksplease Price: $74.08A total institution is defined by Goffman as a place of residence and work where a large number of like-situated, individuals, cut off from the wider society for an appreciable period of time,... -
Mea Culpa: A Sociology of Apology and Reconciliation by Nicholas Tavuchis 9780804722230
RRP: $30.81Booksplease Price: $26.96What is apology? What are its functions and its essential and variable elements? How do apologies differ from excuses, disclaimers, and justifications? What form does apology take in our own culture... -
New Perspectives on Goffman in Language and Interaction: Body, Participation and the Self by Lorenza Mondada 9781032552194
RRP: $56.27Booksplease Price: $53.59This collection highlights new perspectives on the work of Erving Goffman, revisiting his place in contemporary social theory and interactional linguistics research and its impact in surfacing new... -
One Kiss or Two?: The Art and Science of Saying Hello by Scott Andy 9781468316964
RRP: $16.07Booksplease Price: $13.68Every encounter begins with a greeting, and different cultures have developed innumerable ways of showing pleasure at someone's arrival. Humans have been greeting each other for thousands of... -
The Man Who Closed the Asylums: Franco Basaglia and the Revolution in Mental Health Care by John Foot 9781784784164
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $19.08In 1961, when Franco Basaglia arrived outside the grim walls of the Gorizia asylum, on the Italian border with Yugoslavia, it was a place of horror, a Bedlam for the mentally sick and excluded,... -
The Drama of Social Life Jeffrey C. Alexander (University of California, Los Angeles) 9781509518135
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.56In this book Jeffrey Alexander develops the view that cultural sociology and "cultural pragmatics" are vital for understanding the structural turbulence and political possibilities of contemporary... -
Text and Culture: The Politics of Interpretation by Daniel Cottom 9780816617630
RRP: $41.54Booksplease Price: $35.27Text and Culture was first published in 1989. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original... -
Sociology Looking at Disability: What Did we Know and When Did we Know it? by Sara Green 9781786354785
Booksplease Price: $156.55Current research in Sociology of Disability has a tendency to assume that very little written in this area until the last 20 years. However, this is not always the case. In part the lack of awareness... -
Framing Social Interaction (Open Access): Continuities and Cracks in Goffman's Frame Analysis by Anders Persson 9780367897246
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $56.60The Open Access version of this book, available at www.routledge.com/9781472482587, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.This book is... -
Love and Sexuality in Social Theory by Emiliano Bevilacqua 9781032501147
RRP: $57.61Booksplease Price: $54.32Love and Sexuality in Social Theory considers the role that love and sexuality play in private and public life. Drawing on both classical and contemporary social theory, this book presents both... -
Great Minds: Encounters with Social Theory by Gianfranco Poggi 9780804772143 [USED COPY]
RRP: $26.79Booksplease Price: $2.68Modern social thought is largely the intellectual product of a number of "great minds." Revisiting the central theories of Marx, Durkheim, Weber, Simmel, Mead, Parsons, Goffman, Garfinkel, and... -
Sociological Realism: Society as the Walls of Our Imprisonment by Sal Restivo 9781394362561
RRP: $46.83Booksplease Price: $44.03Presents a powerful narrative that situates the individual within the inescapable framework of social forces In a world increasingly defined by inequality and existential threats, Sociological... -
Uneasy Endings: Daily Life in an American Nursing Home by Renee Rose Shield 9780801494901
RRP: $34.83Booksplease Price: $30.07"If we continue, we grow old, and this is how it could be for us," writes Renee Rose Shield in her candid and sympathetic account of life in one American nursing home. Drawing on anthropological... -
Freud as a Social and Cultural Theorist: On Human Nature and the Civilizing Process by Howard L. Kaye 9780367582968
RRP: $62.97Booksplease Price: $58.88This book offers a new account of Freud's work by reading him as the social theorist and philosopher he always aspired to be, and not as the medical scientist he publicly claimed to be. In doing so,... -
Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead by Jessica M. Fishman 9780814770757
Booksplease Price: $121.36Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Social Interaction Winner of the Eastern Communication Association's Everett Lee Hunt... -
Status, Power and Ritual Interaction: A Relational Reading of Durkheim, Goffman and Collins by Theodore D. Kemper 9780367602208
RRP: $60.29Booksplease Price: $57.00Sociologists A0/00mile Durkheim, Erving Goffman and Randall Collins broadly suppose that ritual is foundational for social life. By contrast, this book argues that ritual is merely surface, beneath... -
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon 9780822333715
RRP: $33.49Booksplease Price: $31.62A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost... -
Insult and the Making of the Gay Self by Didier Eribon 9780822332862 [USED COPY]
RRP: $139.36Booksplease Price: $13.94A bestseller in France following its publication in 1999, Insult and the Making of the Gay Self is an extraordinary set of reflections on "the gay question" by Didier Eribon, one of France's foremost... -
Speaking of Sadness: Depression, Disconnection, and the Meanings of Illness, Updated and Expanded Edition by David A. Karp 9780190260965
Booksplease Price: $41.02Combining a scholar's care and thoroughness with searing personal insight, David A. Karp brings the private experience of depression into sharp relief, drawing on a remarkable series of intimate... -
Relational Being: Beyond Self and Community by Kenneth J. Gergen 9780199846269
Booksplease Price: $90.22Relational Being first builds on the broad discontent with the individualist tradition in which the rational agent, or autonomous self, is considered the fundamental atom of social life. Speaking to... -
Trolling Ourselves to Death: Democracy in the Age of Social Media by Jason Hannan 9780197557761
Booksplease Price: $100.21Almost forty years ago, Neil Postman argued that television had brought about a fundamental transformation to democracy. By turning entertainment into our supreme ideology, television had recreated...