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