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ERVING GOFFMAN
Names
By: Marika Saidova
Erving Goffman
• Born in 1922-1982, Mannville, Alberta• Ukrainian Jewish parents
Erving Goffman - education
• Interested in chemistry • Attended St. John Technical High School, then
BSc. At University of Manitoba • Early 1940s – first encounters with sociology
(Dennis Wrong)• 1945 – graduated at University of Toronto• 1949 – 1951 Collecting data for doctoral
dissertation (Island of Unst – Scotland)
Erving Goffman - education
• 1953 – succesfully defended his disertation
Erwing Goffman
• 1958 – Invited to teach at the University of California in Berkley
• 1959 – The presentation of Self, 1961 – Asylum• Progressed rapidly, 1962 full professor• Stock market, Blackjack• 1964 – His wife commited suicide• 1969 The Insanity of Place rumored to be
autobiographical
Erving Goffman• 1968 resigned his position in Berkley • Benjamin Franklin Chair in Sociology and
anthropology at the university of Pennsylvania• Frame Analysis, published 1974, hoped to be
his magnum opus• 1981 - 73rd president of American Sociological
Association, • 1982 - died from Stomach cancer, in
Philadelphia
No matter where you are, you always “put a mask” to get where you want and to be part of something.
“The World is like a stage”
Humans are:
Active and knowledgeable
Devise their own conduct
Guide and control how others see them
Different in social settings than alone
Social Con Artists
DRAMATURGY
The Theatrical Representation of life
Consist from Front Stage and Back Stage
Uses Impression Management as a tool
“And to the degree that the individual maintains a show before others that he himself does not believe, he can come to experience a special kind of alienation from self and a special kind of wariness of others.”
Erving Goffman:
He was influenced by..
Herbert Blumer Lloyd Warner
Erving Goffman’s work was overly impressionistic
Unsystematic: he mainly focused on small groups
Lack of reliability, operationalization and testing.
Impact that Goffman had on the society
He is considered the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth
century"
Goffman dramatically revised how we think of social life
Although Goffman died in 1982, his work is still a major influence in contemporary social analysis.
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• Fine, G. A., & Smith, G. (2000). Erving goffman. (p. 1688). Sage. Retrieved from http://www.sagepub.com/refbooks/Book210765
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