Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (1922 – 1982) was a Canadian-American sociologist and writer.

Works

• The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, 1956.
  • La vita quotidiana come rappresentazione, Il Mulino, 1997; repr., 2009. (Italian)
  • Viaţa cotidiană ca spectacol, Bucharest: comunicare.ro, 2003. (Romanian)
  • A representação do eu na vida cotidiana, Vozes, 2004. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Η Παρουσίαση του Εαυτού στην Καθημερινή Ζωή, trans. Δήμητρα Μακρυνιώτη, Αλεξάνδρεια, 2006. (Greek)
  • Günlük yaşamda benliğin sunumu, 2014. (Turkish)

• Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates, Anchor Books, 1961.
  • Manicômios, prisões e conventos, Perspectiva, 1974. (Brazilian Portuguese)
  • Internados. Ensayos sobre la situación social de los enfermos mentales, Amorrortu, 2001. (Spanish)
  • Aziluri. Eseuri despre situația sociala a pacienților psihiatrici și a altor categorii de persoane instituționalizate, Iași: Polirom, 2004, 336 pp. (Romanian)
  • Asylums. Le istituzioni totali: i meccanismi dell’esclusione e della violenza, Einaudi, 2010. (Italian)

• Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Prentice-Hall, 1963, 147 pp, PDF; repr., Touchstone, 1986.
  • Stigmate. Les usages sociaux du handicap, Paris: Minuit, 1975. (French)
  • Στίγμα: Σημειώσεις για τη διαχείριση της φθαρμένης ταυτότητας, trans. Δήμητρα Μακρυνιώτη, Αλεξάνδρεια, 2001. (Greek)
  • Piętno. Rozważania o zranionej tożsamości, GWP, 2005. (Polish)
  • Estigma, Rio de Janeiro: Gen/LTC, 2008, PDF. (Brazilian Portuguese)

• Behavior in Public Places: Notes on the Social Organization of Gatherings, Free Press, 1966.

• Strategic Interaction, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1970.

• Relations in Public: Microstudies of the Public Order, Basic Books, 1971.

• Encounters: Two Studies in the Sociology of Interaction, Penguin, 1972.

• Frame Analysis: An Essay on the Organization of Experience, Northeastern University Press, 1974; 1986, PDF.
  • Rahmen-Analyse: ein Versuch über die Organisation von Alltagserfahrungen, trans. Hermann Vetter, Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1977. (German)
  • Les cadres de l'expérience, trans. Isaac Joseph with Michel Dartevelle and Pascale Joseph, Paris: Minuit, 1991. (French)
  • Frame analysis: l'organizzazione dell'esperienza, trans. Ivana Matteucci, Rome: Armando, 2001, 589 pp. (Italian)
  • Frame analysis: los marcos de la experiencia, Madrid: Centro de Investigaciones Sociológicas, 2006, xxii+609 pp. (Spanish)

• Gender Advertisements, Macmillan, 1976; repr., Harper & Row, 1988.

• Forms of Talk, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1981.

• Interaction Ritual: Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior, Pantheon, 1982.
  • Ritual de Interação: ensaios sobre o comportamento face a face, Vozes, 2011. (Brazilian Portuguese)

Literature

• Tom Burns, Erving Goffman, Routledge, 1991.
• Philip Manning, Erving Goffman and Modern Sociology, Polity Press, 1992.
• Jean Nizet, Nathalie Rigaux, La sociologie de Erving Goffman, La Découverte, 2005, 128 pp. (French)
• Greg Smith, Erving Goffman, Routledge, 2006.
• Karin Knorr Cetina, "The Synthetic Situation: Interactionism for a Global World", Symbolic Interaction 32:1, 2009, pp 61-87.
• Daniel Cefaï, Erving Goffman et l’ordre de l’interaction, Paris: PUF, 2012. (French)
• Michael Dellwing, Zur Aktualität von Erving Goffman, Springer, 2014. (German)

Links

• Wikipedia