Erving Goffman
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Erving Goffman (June 11, 1922 - November 19, 1982), was a Canadian sociologist and writer. Goffman received his B.A. at the University of Toronto in 1945, his M.A., and his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, in 1949 and 1953 respectively.
Author of the seminal text Asylums, for which he gathered information at the National Institute of Mental Health in Washington, that describes "institutionalization" as a response by patients to the bureaucratic structures of a hospital setting. Goffman uses phenomenology to understand how humans perceive the interactions that they observe and take part in. To Goffman there is no real capital T Truth, but interpretations that are real to each individual.
He also authored The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, a study of social ritual and the personas we create for ourselves; and Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. Both of these works formed the basis for the sociological and media studies concept of framing.
Main works
- 1956: The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, University of Edinburgh Social Sciences Research Centre.
- 1961: Asylums: Essays on the Social Situation of Mental Patients and Other Inmates. New York, Doubleday.
- 1963: Stigma: Notes on the Management of Spoiled Identity. Prentice-Hall.
- 1974. Frame analysis: An essay on the organization of experience. London: Harper and Row.
See also
- Face (self image)
- dramaturgical perspective
- American Association for the Abolition of Involuntary Mental Hospitalization
- total institution
- symbolic interactionism
- impression management
- Framing (communication theory)
- Synthetic Personality
External link
- Erving Goffman, Wikipedia french (http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erving_goffman)
- Erving Goffman: A Bibliography (http://www.tau.ac.il/~algazi/mat/bib-goffman.htm)da:Erving Goffman