Erving Goffman

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

Works

• Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity, Prentice-Hall, 1963, 147 pp, ARG.

• 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)

Literature

• Karin Knorr Cetina, "The Synthetic Situation: Interactionism for a Global World", Symbolic Interaction 32:1 (2009), pp 61-87.

Links

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_Goffman