Erving Manuel Goffman: Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination [Hardcover]

This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffmans career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmans scholarship which has had an enormous and continuous impact across the social sciences and humanities.

Dmitri N. Shalin is professor of sociology and director of the Center for Democratic Culture at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Dr Shalin is coordinator of Justice & Democracy Forum series, editor of the Social Health of Nevada Report, director of the Erving Goffman Archives and International Biography Initiative, and organizer of international forums on Russian politics and culture. His research interests and publications are in the areas of biohermeneutics, pragmatism, democratic culture, emotional intelligence, and Russian culture and society.

Introduction 1 Leaving the tribe 2 Learning the trade 3 Waxing Academic 4 Coping with madness 5 Taking a gamble 6 Mastering the game 7 Gendering sex 8 Breaking the frame 9 Facing death 10 Conjuring a legacy Conclusion Appendix A: Goffman Archives Appendix B: Immigration Records Appendix C: Photo Gallery Appendix D: Biographical Timeline References

Matt Dawson and?Dmitri N. Shalin discuss?Erving Manuel Goffman:?Biographical Sources of Sociological Imagination on the New Books Network

Erving Goffman is the most cited American sociologist. There is no shortage of studies exploring Goffmans scholarship but no extant biography of Erving Goffman. The chief reason is that a man who looked behind the facades people erect to protect their private selves, zealously guarded his own backstage. This book is the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, an intellectual of l£#