Interaction Ritual - Essays on Face-to-Face Behavior 1st Pantheon Books ed Edition

by Erving Goffman (Author)

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In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman’s work, once of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascinating commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people.

From the exemplary opening essay of Interaction Ritual, “On Face-Work,” —a full account of the extraordinary repertoire of maneuvers we employ in social encounters in order to “save face”—to the final, and classic, essay “Where the Action Is,”—an examination of people in risky occupations and situations: gamblers, criminals, coal miners, stock speculators—Goffman astounds us with the unexpected richness and complexity of brief encounters between people. For Goffman, as for Freud, the extreme cases are of interest because of the light they shed on the normal: The study of the trapeze artist is worthwhile because each of us is on the wire from time to time.

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In a brilliant series of books about social behavior, including The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma, Erving Goffman has exposed all that is at stake when people meet face to face. Goffman's work, one of the great intellectual achievements of our time, is an endlessly fascination commentary on how we enact ourselves by our responses to and our readings of other people.

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ERVING GOFFMAN is the author of, among other works, Interaction Ritual, The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life, Asylums, and Stigma. He is Benjamin Franklin Professor of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Publisher: Pantheon; 1st Pantheon Books ed edition (January 12, 1982)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0394706315
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Great Addition to Dialogic Work

February 28, 2018

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This is amazing so far! I've read Goffman's Frame Analysis and some other essays by him, but this one is the most useful and practical of his works day to day. It upgrades my relationships and relatedness. I'm a Dialogic OD fan, and have read works such as Dialogic OD by Marshack & Busche, and the precursors to these theories, such as The Social Construction of Reality, and narratological theories in the realm of OD and personal interaction. I've studied W. B. Pearce's works, Bakhtin, Vygotsky, and so on and so forth to flesh out my thinking within that realm. I would say that Interaction Ritual is at least as helpful and supportive of practical dialogic work as any of the dialogic OD manuals and theories. You may have to be grounded in the perspective to see the practical perspective in this work, however.

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November 6, 2009

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People call Goffman a sociologist, but the more I read of him, the more I see him as a philosopher. I mean, George Herbert Mead is considered a philosopher and not a sociologist, right? In my day-to-day life, I find Goffman's observations about ritual human behavior and face-to-face interaction to be endlessly useful. Almost every day I think about something he's written in one of his books. His style is not overly pedantic, and you can read through any of his books without specialized education.

Sure, the 50s/60s examples he gives are sort of dated, but so what- we all watch Mad Men, don't we?

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July 16, 2013

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Supremely helpful not only in its insight into social reality, but in its terms and models for studying literature, drama, film, even video games.

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April 28, 2009

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Good seminal work by Goffman. It includes one of Goffman's most noted pieces: "On Face-Work," originally published in Psychiatry: Journal for the Study of Interpersonal Processes.

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December 14, 2008

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As a communication major, I used this book frequently when I write papers and do research. If you want to know about concepts such as "face", you will have to read this original. But I don't think it's a book for everybody, that's the only reason I gave it 4 star.

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I think if a man begins reading a subject, he / she has to understand it. At social people how can be achived an individually ? That must be found as an answer by reading the book.

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Goffman's Classic Theory

This is not as profound as some of his other works, but it is important nonetheless. Goffman's understanding about interactions and how society shapes them, and learns from them,...Read more

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Edgar Schein recommended this book, so I read it. I'm glad I did. Goffman is fascinated by what happens when people engage one another face-to-face, and the essays in this book...Read more

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