Erving Goffman as a precursor to post-modern sociology

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter I
2. Introduction 1
3. I. Probing the theory
4. The descent of the ego 19
5. The anthropology of the interaction order 41
6. Redefining the situation: Extending dramaturgy into a theory of social change and media effects 65
7. Is Erving Goffman a phenomenologist? 99
8. The phenomenology of miscommunication 113
9. The cross-cultural relevance of Goffman's concept of individual agency 141
10. Erving Goffman as a precursor to post-modern sociology 163
11. Reading Goffman: Toward the deconstruction of sociology 187
12. II. Expanding the Scope: Forms of institutions, forms of language
13. Legal decisions: A frame analytic perspective 203
14. Making sense of religion by direct observation: An application of frame analysis 235
15. Gender codes in women's advice books 277
16. Forms of talk/figures of speech 295
17. III. Expanding the Scope: Objects, events and communication
18. How to do self with things 315
19. The power of things: The role of domestic objects in the presentation of self 341
20. The mediating role of objects in the functioning of social structure: A case study of kwai 369
21. Erving Goffman and the study of everyday protest 389
22. Incidents, accidents, failures: The representation of negative experience in public entertainment 409
23. Subject Index 445
24. Name Index 449
25. References to works by Erving Goffman 455