ErvingGoffman

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Canadian sociologist and writer (1922 - 1982). His different books and essays offer a variety of different views. He observed social interactions in a very detailed and insightful way and developed a lot of language to describe these observations. In his Presidential Address as President of the American Sociological Association he writes about "interaction order" as the field of sociology he had worked for to establish (he died from cancer before he could give that talk). His work should gain new importance as a basis for the analysis and understanding of online interactions.

Books and Essays:

Communication conduct in an island community. DIssertation (1953)
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life (1959)
Encounters. Two studies in the sociology of interaction. (1961)
Asylums. Essays on the social situation of mental patients and their inmates. (1961)
Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity (1963)
Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings (1963)
Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior (1967)
Strategic interaction. (1969)
Where the action is. Three essays. (1969)
Relations in public. Micostudies of the public order. (1971)
Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organisation of Experience (1974)
Gender Advertisements (1979)
Forms of Talk (1981)

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