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Strategic Interaction by Erving Goffman
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £16.68The 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... -
Forms of Talk by Erving Goffman
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £23.51Forms of Talk extends Erving Goffman's interactional analyses of face-to-face communication to ordinary conversations and vebal exchanges. In this, his most sociolinguistic work, Goffman relates to... -
Erving Goffman Tom Burns 9780415755719
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Few sociologists have commanded a larger readership than Erving Goffman. From his first book, The Presentation of Self In Everyday Life (1956), to his last, Forms of Talk (1981), his publications... -
Behavior in Public Places by Erving Goffman 9780029119402
Booksplease Price: £13.50Erving Goffman effectively extends his argument in favor of a diagnosis of deviant behavior which takes account of the whole social situation.About the AuthorErring Goffman was born in Manville,... -
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life Erving Goffman 9780241547991
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One 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: £36.52Apologies 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: £50.56Part 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... -
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman 9780385094023
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £10.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385094023Author Erving GoffmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.10The acclaimed sociologist's landmark, compassionate work on how society treats those who are different'By definition, of course, we believe the person with a stigma is not quite human'In ancient... -
Erving Goffman Greg Smith (University of Salford, UK) 9780415355919
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63Decades 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... -
Erving Goffman y La Microsociologia by Isaac Joseph 9788474327168
Booksplease Price: £15.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788474327168Author Isaac JosephFormat PaperbackImprint -
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity by Erving Goffman 9780671622442
Booksplease Price: £12.05From 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... -
The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman by Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9781839983191
RRP: £120.00Booksplease Price: £116.34The purpose of the volume-as with the other volumes published in the Anthem Press "Companion to Sociology" series-is to provide a comprehensive overview of Erving Goffman's continued appeal and... -
Erving Goffman and the Cold War by Gary D. Jaworski 9781666936803
Booksplease Price: £85.65Erving 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... -
Interaction Ritual: Essays in Face-to-Face Behavior by Erving Goffman
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59"Not then, men and their moments. Rather, moment and their men," writes Erving Goffman in the introduction to his groundbreaking 1967 Interaction Ritual, a study of face-to-face interaction in... -
Erving Goffman: From the Perspective of the New Sociology of Knowledge by Jürgen Raab
RRP: £44.99Booksplease Price: £42.24While Erving Goffman's books are among the most widely read sociological works, covering issues including the presentation of the self, total institutions, interaction order to frame analysis, they... -
Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Yves Winkin 9781433109935
RRP: £30.50Booksplease Price: £28.49Although Erving Goffman never claimed to be a media or communication scholar, his work is definitely relevant to, and has already served as a substantial resource for, those who are. This is the... -
Erving Goffman: Exploring the Interaction Order Paul Drew (University of York) 9780745603933
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £17.89Erving Goffman was one of the most pre-eminent authors of the post-war period in social science. His ideas have had an extraordinary influence and have become well known to a wide audience. This is... -
Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates by Erving Goffman
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23One of most influential social scientist of the twentieth century examines the meaning of the asylum'Psychiatric staff share with policemen the peculiar occupational task of hectoring and moralizing... -
Erving Goffman: A Critical Introduction to Media and Communication Theory by Yves Winkin 9781433109942
RRP: £108.80Booksplease Price: £95.69Although Erving Goffman never claimed to be a media or communication scholar, his work is definitely relevant to, and has already served as a substantial resource for, those who are. This is the... -
Encountering the Everyday: An Introduction to the Sociologies of the Unnoticed by Professor Michael Hviid Jacobsen 9780230201231
Booksplease Price: £46.05Everyday life is something we tend to take for granted, something that just is, something unnoticed. But everyday life is perhaps the most important dimension of society - it's where we live most... -
Managing the Work Situation: A Phenomenological Approach to Organization and Management in a Complex World of Work by Lars Klemsdal 9781032777306
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Managing the Work Situation outlines a perspective on how organization and management in the contemporary world of work happens as active everyday accomplishments by workers and managers, facing and... -
Order and Agency in Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Erving Goffman, and Harold Garfinkel by Kwang-ki Kim 9780791455401
Booksplease Price: £25.65In this unique analysis of three prominent theorists of modern sociology, theory is understood as implicitly, but importantly, reflecting especially modern problems of individual and social life... -
Con Game: Bernard Madoff and His Victims by Lionel S. Lewis 9781138508392
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98Bernard Madoff's financial fraud was global, an enormous amount of money was involved, and thousands of people and hundreds of institutions were swindled. Madoff's con game was a Ponzi scheme an... -
From Labouring to Learning: Working-Class Masculinities, Education and De-Industrialization by Michael R.M. Ward 9781349561322
Booksplease Price: £29.55Highly Commended in the Society of Educational Studies Book PrizeThis book explores how economic changes and the growing importance of educational qualifications in a shrinking labour market,... -
Tacit Racism Anne Warfield Rawls 9780226703558
RRP: £72.00Booksplease Price: £69.80We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time... -
Tacit Racism by Anne Warfield Rawls
Booksplease Price: £28.55We need to talk about racism before it destroys our democracy. And that conversation needs to start with an acknowledgement that racism is coded into even the most ordinary interactions. Every time... -
Stigma, Language and Identity: The Impact of Education Reforms on Upper Silesian Language Teachers and Educators Stephanie Cebulla 9783658496654
Booksplease Price: £92.11The study explores the impact of Poland's (1999 and) 2017 education reform(s) on Upper Silesian language teachers and educators, focusing on how reforms influenced their (professional)... -
Three Frames of Modern Politics: Self, Others, and Institutions by Daniel J. McCool 9783319956473
Booksplease Price: £55.35This book examines the centrality of personality in political discourse since the Enlightenment. It considers the theory known as the "politics of authenticity," its counter-discourses, and the ways... -
Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination Dmitri N. Shalin 9781032849997
RRP: £37.99Booksplease Price: £36.58Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffman's scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who... -
PsychoPolitics Peter Sedgwick 9780745347257
Booksplease Price: £85.65'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... -
Play Reconsidered: Sociological Perspectives on Human Expression by Thomas S. Henricks 9780252073182
RRP: £20.99Booksplease Price: £18.01Understanding the significance of adult play in the life of modern societies Within the social sciences, few matters are as significant as the study of human play--or as neglected. In Play... -
The Lure of Communication: Sociology through Rhetoric by Andrea Lombardinilo 9781349960835
RRP: £109.99Booksplease Price: £96.71This book addresses the convergence of sociology, communication and rhetoric, with particular reference to the contemporary expressive and social patterns of mass communication. Using rhetoric as a... -
Crime Law & Society by Joseph Goldstein 9780029122600
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £15.23This selection of readings intends to discuss notable literature surrounding the world of criminal law, including the impact of the United States Supreme Court and the development of the codification... -
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists by John Scott 9780415352598
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.29Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in... -
Being Urban: A Sociology of City Life, 3rd Edition by David A. Karp 9780275956547
Booksplease Price: £38.11This third edition of a classic urban sociology text examines critical but often-neglected aspects of urban life from a social-psychological theoretical perspective. Symbolic interaction is among... -
Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists by John Scott
Booksplease Price: £128.38Fifty Key Sociologists: The Contemporary Theorists covers the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most important thinkers in this discipline. Concentrating on figures writing predominantly in... -
New Tech, New Ties: How Mobile Communication Is Reshaping Social Cohesion by Richard Ling 9780262515047
Booksplease Price: £29.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, Sociology & Social Work category, 2008 PROSE Awards presented by the... -
Policing Football: Social Interaction and Negotiated Disorder by M. O'Neill 9781349520558
Booksplease Price: £92.13This book presents a critical portrait of the British police through a detailed ethnography of their work at football matches. Megan O'Neill not only sheds light on a topic of intense media interest,... -
Telling About Society by Howard Saul Becker 9780226041254
RRP: £44.00Booksplease Price: £43.55One 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...