Through his study of social interaction, Goffman made a lasting mark on how sociologists understand and study stigma and how it affects the lives of people who experience it. His studies also laid the groundwork for the study of strategic interaction within game theory and laid the foundation fo...
StigmaThis article presents Goffman's (1956, 1963) description of particular micro-social systems exhibiting embarrassment with the potential to escalate into stigma as a near-prescriptive communication cycle coined This Goffmanian Conundrum. The impact of This Goffmanian Conundrum is examined both ...
(1958–68) and the University of Pennsylvania (1968–82). He was known for his work on patterns of human communication and language, particularly his analyses of routine social interactions such as the ways people walk past one another in public spaces. His books includeStigma(1963),Relations ...
Major Works: Presentation of self in everyday life (1959) Role Distance (1961 ) Stigma (1963)
Thirty years ago, when I was a medical student, I read two of Erving Goffman's books. Asylums (1961) examined "total institutions" such as mental hospitals and prisons and showed how inmates can become degraded and dehumanised. The other was Stigma (1963), which I found harder to read,...
In 1963 the sociologist Erving Goffman published his seminal work on stigma, which provides a framework for understanding the criteria young people use in making decisions on whether or not to take up an offer of STI screening in a particular setting. Goffman's work has previously been used by...
. Mr. Goffman is the author of several articles and book reviews which have appeared in such periodicals as Psychiatry and the American Journal of Sociology. He is also the author of, among other works, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, Interaction Ritual,and Stigma...
The findings are discussed in the light of Erving Goffman's concept of stigma and contemporary theorising about ageing, ageism, beauty work and the body... CLARKE,L Hurd,GRIFFIN,... - 《Ageing & Society》 被引量: 32发表: 2009年 The accidental journalist: shifting professional boundaries in ...
Goffman, E.: Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Englewood Cliffs/New Jersey 1963 (Harmondsworth 1968). Google Scholar Goffman, E.: Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings. Glencoe 1963. Google Scholar Goffman, E.: Interaction Ritual: Essays...
This argument has been linked to Goffman''s classic work Stigma: Notes on the management of a spoiled identity [1963, Harmondsworth: Penguin]. Despite its evident appeal, linking recovery to repairing a spoiled identity has a number of problems. These include the derogatory connotations of ...