The Anthem Companion to Erving Goffman

Michael Hviid Jacobsen is a professor of sociology at Aalborg University, Denmark.

List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction The Living Legacy of Erving Goffman, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter One Framing Goffman: Master of Disguise or Conspiring Magician?, Susie Scott; Chapter Two The Legacy of Erving Goffman’s Work: Cashor Primogeniture?, Philip Manning; Chapter Three Goffman’s Methods and Metaphors, Paul Atkinson and Martyn Hammersley; Chapter Four Goffman and the “Situation” in Sociology, Gary D. Jaworski; Chapter Five Interaction Order Controversies, Greg Smith; Chapter Six The World “Outside” the Interaction Order: Exploring Erving Goffman’s (Rather Limited) Relationship to European Social Theory, Michael Hviid Jacobsen; Chapter Seven Erving Goffman’s Contribution to a General Theory of Interpersonal Behavior, Jonathan H. Turner; Chapter Eight Playing for Meaning: Erving Goffman on Stakes, Pools, and Competitive Constructions of Meaning, Michael Dellwing; Chapter Nine Erving Goffman as Criminologist: Encounters, Dramaturgy, and Drift, Black Hawk Hancock and Roberta Garner; Chapter Ten Goffman’s Politics: Rebel With(out) a Cause?, Stacey Hannem; Afterword Maps, Masks, Meshes, Misses, and More: Metaphors in Search of Understanding Erving Goffman and Society, Gary T. Marx; Contributors; Index